On Monday 05 February 2007, Douglas Linford wrote: > Alan, > > Thank you for the explanation...some of this helps, I already knew > about the mount command. I have hal and dbus installed...what GUI > tools for those apps were you refering to?
In KDE it's controlled by kcontrol - that enormous config app with 1000s of selectable options. There's a selection near the top of the menu which asks you which icons to display on the desktop. Options include a large range of mounted and unmounted storage device types. I can't help much with Gnome (I don't use it) but surely it will be part of the vast array of configuration options available in the Preferences menu. This is installed automatically with Gnome. In my limited experience with Gnome I have always found that a device can be accessed through the middle Other menu alan -- Optimists say the glass is half full, Pessimists say the glass is half empty, Developers say wtf is the glass twice as big as it needs to be? Alan McKinnon alan at linuxholdings dot co dot za +27 82, double three seven, one nine three five -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
