software eject for cd drive

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mrbiggles

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Posts: 3

Friday, April 18th 2003, 10:07pm

software eject for cd drive

Hello:
I just installed Mandrake 9.1, using kde 3.1, and I seem to have lost the ability to right click on my cd icon and eject it. Can anyone tell me how to get it back?
Thanks ever so much...
mrBiggles :wink:

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Kal

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Posts: 42

Friday, April 18th 2003, 11:34pm

you gotta find the rpm/source or whatever of a simple application called 'eject'. thats what KDE is looking for by default to use.

http://rpms.mandrakeclub.com/rpms/eject.html is what a quick search on google found.

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mrbiggles

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Posts: 3

Saturday, April 19th 2003, 2:26am

ah, sorry, I wasn't clear... my apologies. :oops: Eject is installed, what I'm having trouble with is what file do I edit (and what do I put in it) in order to put the eject command in the right click menu? Ideally, this would be a global menu, accessible to all users.
Thanks again,
mrBiggles

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TSDgeos

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Posts: 8

Saturday, April 19th 2003, 9:33am

/usr/share/apps/konqueror/servicemenus/

Is where konqueror right click menus are located.

Not sure, but i think you should edit
/usr/share/apps/konqueror/servicemenus/cdrom_mounted_konqy.desktop
and add cdrom_eject in Actions and then create below

[Desktop Action cdrom_eject]
Name=Eject
Exec=eject %u

Not sure because haven't tried it, but it must be something like that

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mrbiggles

Beginner

Posts: 3

Sunday, April 20th 2003, 9:15am

I think that you are in the right ballpark, but I couldn't seem to get it to work... I did notice that each of the files found in /servicemenus contained but one Action each. I did try making it a seperate file, but got nothing there either. I think that at this point I have to beat a minor retreat, and just write a short shell script, and link to it from the desktop... I certainly ain't no guru lol! (I'll come back to this challenge at a later date, just 'cause...:twisted: )
Thanks for your help anyway TSDgeos (you too,Kal) , and have a happy Easter!
mrBiggles

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