how to disable media:/ feature?

[Derek Broughton]

Urtzi Jauregi wrote:

> 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,

Indeed it does.  I like that behaviour much better.  Thanks
 
> (*) The KDE Control Center calls it "Deamon" -- Does this qualify as a
> bug?

It certainly does, but don't hold your breath waiting for a fix :-)
-- 
derek