Partition and content

[Perry]

Sorry for long delay, been terribly busy.
Le Wednesday 07 July 2010 08.43:18 O. Sinclair, vous avez écrit (you wrote) :
> > I will have to dig into this, it might be helpful, and perhaps even solve
> > my problem. Will report on that later when I learn how to do that.
> 
> Right-click on the device-notifier widget in the Systray (the one that 
> comes alive when you insert a flashdisk or CD/DVD). 
I cannot tell for sure which widget in the Systray comes alive when I insert a 
removable media, I just see a new information window appear.
In fact I know no simple way to find the name (that you would use in a shell) 
when I see the Icon... I'll come back later on this point. (***)
In this case the Icon is explicit enough: a blue screen showing the usb symbol 
capped with with a half CD, which I discovered was named knotify4, but when I 
right click on it...
> Choose "Device 
> Notifier Settings". It should come up a window with settings with 
> "General" set to display "Removable Devices only".
I doesn't,
when I click again to configure the notification the only available choice it to 
configure a keyboard shortcut (and trying the Alt+D,S suggestion caused the 
icon to vanish from the Systray, I had to add this damn plasmoid back)
> Change that to "All devices" and OK.
> When you now click on the notifier you see all devices, hover over one 
> and you get info on size and occupied/free space
Well, I think Dolphin already displays this information, but I haven't found 
since Hardy a program that would at the same time display the partition name 
(eg. sda5) and open it. 
After all this will not deprive me of my sleep.


(***) Under Hardy the K-Launcher (kickoff) had an option to launch a program as 
a shell command, thus you could find it name and do other things; I also miss 
this feature. Could it be because for Hardy I installed first the gnome part, 
and then kde above it?

@ Goh
I tired this suggestion, without much hope and to no avail.
>sudo dpkg-reconfigure kdm
I think there was something special Hardy had on my installation, but neither 
Jaunty nor Karmic. Was it Gnome?


Greetings		Perry


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