how to disable media:/ feature?

[Urtzi Jauregi]

On Tuesday 31 January 2006 15:08, Art Alexion wrote:
> My problem is related.  In my prior KDE (whatever Hoary came with), if I
> inserted an audio or blank disk in the CD-ROM, an icon for it would
> appear on the desktop -- nothing more -- nice.  Now with Breezy 3.4.3,
> every time I insert an audio CD, Konqueror opens up with it -- a lot of
> useless CPU cycles since 99.9% of the time, I just close it.  And every
> time I insert a blank disk, Konqueror *tries* to open it, but just
> displays an error.  Very annoying [...]

	I had that exactly problem and solved it right now (in KDE 3.5) by disabling 
the media notifier daemon(*). In the Control Center, go to KDE Components ->
 Service Manager and, in the lower window, disable the "Media Notifier
 Daemon" but *not* the "KDED Media Manager". I suspect that the latter makes
 KDE detect media insertion/removal, while the former does all the
 interaction with the user.

	It works perfectly for me now: when you insert a CD or USB medium, the 
unmounted icon pops up and you can mount it just by clicking on it.

	Hope this helps,

	- Urtzi -

	(*) The KDE Control Center calls it "Deamon" -- Does this qualify as a bug?

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Urtzi Jauregi
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