Partition and content

[O. Sinclair]

On 12/07/2010 19:11, Perry wrote:
> 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.
I am not sure we are on the same version. I run 10.04 Lucid with KDE 
updated to 4.4.5 . There were many changes to the Device Notifier 
between Karmic and Lucid. However, my version does not show the sdaX either

Sinclair