> as soon as I load a CD in tray, an icon pops up in desktop; it > also has an "Eject..." command that unmount and ejects CD. > I have not found a way to solve this inconvenience and from now on I > have worked solely under Gnome. :| > I haven't worked with KDE but I am pretty sure that if you fire up the analog of gconf-editor for KDE there has to be an option somewhere just like gconf has for 'magicdev' to automount and/or autorun a CD once inserted. This can be turned on and off. For example I have it off because it might interfere with CD or DVD writting by claiming access on the device while it is busy.