Re: [SLUG] Re: How do I automount CF card when PCMCIA adapter inserted?
On Tuesday 08 August 2006 14:54, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: John Clarke [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered the following thing: Would someone please point me in the right direction? If you're fairly desktop-agnostic, you can try reverting to Kubuntu. I Last time I used KDE I wasn't too keen on it, but it was a long time ago. find KDE does a marvellous job at auto-mounting removable media. When I stick a removable disk in (either usb or pcmcia), it pops up asking me what to do (and i can set it to remember my choice). GNOME does the right thing with USB drives, CDs and DVDs. It's only PCMCIA that's not working. I'm not suggesting 'throw the baby out with the bathwater' but over and over everywhere you look kde is more polished than gnome ... Recently I asked this list howto avoid screensaver lock when closing the lid on my laptop (ubuntu/gnome) Martin answered about using gconf-edit. Someone else answered about xscreensaver settings (oops why 2 answers). Turns out neither is totally right and neither is totally wrong! Using either you cant set lock AND DPMS timeouts. They interact and do not work together (.xscreensaverec settings) KDE does it in the intuitively 'right place' and it works. Another EG I setup (by accident) the logout button to LOGOUT not give the Reboot / Shutdown / Logout options. Many tries at google, many hours trying every option known to man! Ah Ha there it is under Sessions! Again its intuitive on KDE. When I've said this before I've been accused of windows idiom and baby duck. The amusing sidebar is I've used a CLI for 30 years (sic) and I've never used windows, not for a single day, not ever! And still I use gnome? (2/5 desktops) Yes it's faster, got promise ... H James -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Re: How do I automount CF card when PCMCIA adapter inserted?
quote who=[EMAIL PROTECTED] I'm not suggesting 'throw the baby out with the bathwater' but over and over everywhere you look kde is more polished than gnome ... I don't think everywhere is true at all, but particular examples are good, because the offer the opportunity of explanation. Recently I asked this list howto avoid screensaver lock when closing the lid on my laptop (ubuntu/gnome) Martin answered about using gconf-edit. Someone else answered about xscreensaver settings (oops why 2 answers). Turns out neither is totally right and neither is totally wrong! Until 2.12, GNOME deferred to xscreensaver for config and integration. So we'd run xscreensaver as the daemon, and xscreensaver-demo for the config tool. Unfortunately, xscreensaver and its maintainer were never fully invested in modernising the Linux desktop in integration terms - i18n and a11y have always been big issues with xscreensaver, and it turns out that screensaver stuff really needs to be fairly tightly integrated with power management policy and so on. So for 2.14, GNOME shipped gnome-screensaver (which operates much like KDE's fork of xscreensaver that they did ages ago). The distros shipped gnome-power-manager, which was not included with GNOME 2.14 due to integration issues. g-p-m is the policy daemon that interacts with HAL (another project spearheaded by GNOME developers, which has resulted in all the funky device autoconfiguration through the desktop projects). Thus, there was a synchronisation issue with the integration of these components, because distros decided to forge ahead with g-p-m. Often this kind of trail-blazing is good (it's one reason why HAL works so well), but in this case the results were less than stellar. KDE does it in the intuitively 'right place' and it works. Depends which distro you run, and the choices they've made about power management and screensavers. :-) Another EG I setup (by accident) the logout button to LOGOUT not give the Reboot / Shutdown / Logout options. Many tries at google, many hours trying every option known to man! Ah Ha there it is under Sessions! This is another distribution / desktop desynchronisation issue. The logout dialogues in GNOME 2.14 and Ubuntu 6.06 LTS are substantially different, as Ubuntu decided to do something completely different on their own, so had limited resources for integrating their changes in a really polished way. I can't express how frustrating it is when suboptimal distro choices impact appreciation of GNOME, but that's how it works. (Additionally, the organic growth of the GNOME control-center module over the last five years has not been kind to its structural sanity - we'll get to that though. At least we don't have to have a search interface for the preferences GUI though.) - Jeff -- linux.conf.au 2007: Sydney, Australia http://lca2007.linux.org.au/ Stick to your guns and get it right. - Havoc Pennington -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] Re: How do I automount CF card when PCMCIA adapter inserted?
John Clarke [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered the following thing: Hi all, I have a new (HP) laptop with Ubuntu 6.06. Most things just work :-) I also have a PCMCIA compact flash adapter which works, except that I have to mount the drive manually after inserting it. I'd like to have it automount but having never played with PCMCIA on Linux I don't know what to do to make it happen. Would someone please point me in the right direction? If you're fairly desktop-agnostic, you can try reverting to Kubuntu. I find KDE does a marvellous job at auto-mounting removable media. When I stick a removable disk in (either usb or pcmcia), it pops up asking me what to do (and i can set it to remember my choice). Also on an HP laptop. BB -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Re: How do I automount CF card when PCMCIA adapter inserted?
On Mon, Aug 07, 2006 at 11:39:49 +0200, Ben Buxton wrote: John Clarke [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered the following thing: Would someone please point me in the right direction? If you're fairly desktop-agnostic, you can try reverting to Kubuntu. I Last time I used KDE I wasn't too keen on it, but it was a long time ago. find KDE does a marvellous job at auto-mounting removable media. When I stick a removable disk in (either usb or pcmcia), it pops up asking me what to do (and i can set it to remember my choice). GNOME does the right thing with USB drives, CDs and DVDs. It's only PCMCIA that's not working. Also on an HP laptop. This is a new Pavillion dv5230tx. I also have access to a couple of Dells so I might try it on those too. Thanks, John -- [unistd.h] is in /usr/include; or if it isn't, you don't have a compiler, you have an implement designed for the regenerating of kernels. Any resemblance that may have to a compiler is purely coincidental. -- Eric The Read -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Re: How do I automount CF card when PCMCIA adapter inserted?
quote who=John Clarke GNOME does the right thing with USB drives, CDs and DVDs. It's only PCMCIA that's not working. (It's all the same infrastructure anyway, just the policy bits on top that are different.) - Jeff -- linux.conf.au 2007: Sydney, Australia http://lca2007.linux.org.au/ It's like having someone say to you, 'You should get back together with your first wife. You guys were good together'. It's not that simple. - David Byrne on Talking Heads -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
