[Dapper] How to get mounted disk show on the desktop

[Michael V. De Palatis]

It's things like this that make me question the GNOME philosophy. It
seems that they try to make things so "easy" that changing something
that should be a matter of pointing and clicking maybe twice becomes
overly complicated.

But that's just my opinion.

Mike

On Mon, Feb 27, 2006 at 07:20:46PM +0100, Vincent Trouilliez wrote:
> On Mon, 2006-02-27 at 18:24 +0100, Loïc Martin wrote:
> > Hi,
> > Dapper doesn't show mounted disks on the desktop (as icons) like Breezy 
> > does. It's really annoying and I'd like to know how an user could reset 
> > the default  as it was  on Breezy.
> 
> Two things come to mind :
> 
> a) In Dapper there is indeed a regression from Breezy, where Nautilus
> would not show mounted partitions. To fix this, go to Gconf and navigate
> to System->Storage, then you will see an option to "display internal
> hard-drives". In my experience, it won't take effect immediately though,
> even restarting Nautilus wasn't enough, even logging out wasn't enough,
> I had to reboot the machine, somehow.
> 
> b) Second thing, not specific to Dapper, is another key in Gconf:
> 
> Apps->Nautilus->Desktop
> 
> and enable the option "Volumes visible". This will put icons on the
> Desktop for all your mounted partitions.
> 
> 
> HTH
> 
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> Vince
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