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gangaraju

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Tuesday, December 27th 2005, 6:52am

Device icon on the desktop as in GNOME ?

HI
i have installed with
linux-2.6.9 fedora3 Linux
Kde-3.3.1
Gnome2.8.0
when i plugged my USB memory stick , i found a devive icon on the desktop in Gnome desktop environment. by clicking that i accessed my device.
But in Kde i ddn't find any device icon on the desktop when i plugged it.
why kde doesn't have similar feature?????
could you plese guide me get similar functionality in Kde

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Tuesday, December 27th 2005, 11:42am

RE: Device icon on the desktop as in GNOME ?

You should use a higher version of KDE instead of wondering why KDE doesn't have that option.

In KDE 3.4 and higher, a popup will appear once you plug in your USB stick. Kubuntu 5.10 (Breezy) does exactly what you want, show and hide icons when you (un)plug your USB-stick.
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Tuesday, December 27th 2005, 11:52am

RE: Device icon on the desktop as in GNOME ?

Yes, you have to add by hand.

First of all, you will need an entry in /etc/fstab for the USB stick. My device on /dev/sda1 and mounts on /mnt/usb. Here is my /etc/fstab entry for this:

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/dev/sda1       /mnt/usb        auto    noauto,user     0  0


Once you have that, you can now add the desktop icon.

On the desktop, right mouse click and from the menu select > Create New->Link to Device->Hard Disc device.

Then in the dialog that pops up (General), change the icon to the USB stick (use 'memory_stick_mount') and rename it 'USB Stick'.
Then in the third tab (Devices), there is a drop down box - in this are entries from your fstab - select the usb stick entry device point [i.e. /dev/sda1 (/mnt/usb) ] or whatever yours is. Then on that same tab, change the icon to 'memory_stick_unmount'.

Click OK.

You will now have an icon on the desktop, that when the stick is plugged in you can click it to mount and then click to umount to remove it.

Hope that helps.

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Tuesday, December 27th 2005, 11:53am

RE: Device icon on the desktop as in GNOME ?

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Originally posted by bram85
You should use a higher version of KDE instead of wondering why KDE doesn't have that option.

In KDE 3.4 and higher, a popup will appear once you plug in your USB stick. Kubuntu 5.10 (Breezy) does exactly what you want, show and hide icons when you (un)plug your USB-stick.


We both posted together. I am on KDE3.5 and I never got a 'pop-up' hence why I added a device icon...

Nick