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

[Alan McKinnon]

On Wednesday, 1 March 2006 13:30, Vincent Trouilliez wrote:
> Thanks for shedding some light :-)
> I always assume that apart from a new kernel, nothing warrants a
> reboot. But sometimes it's faster to reboot than spend hours trying
> to figure out what component needs restarting ! ;-)

Very true :-) Sometimes it's better to use the quick way that works 
right now instead of TheRightWay(tm)

> For example, to use one of my software, I need to make myself part
> of the "lp" group, so I can access /dev/parport0 as a regular user
> instead of root. Well, I would not mind knowing how to make this
> change take effect without having to reboot...

sudo gpasswd -a <username> lp
will assign you permanent membership to group lp. Close all shells and 
logout from gnome for it to take effect. 

But how does rebooting work around this?

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Alan McKinnon
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