On Wed, 25 Apr 2007 09:55:56 -0700, Rick Stevens wrote: > On Tue, 2007-04-24 at 21:25 -0400, Mike - EMAIL IGNORED wrote: >> On Tue, 24 Apr 2007 17:33:05 -0700, Rick Stevens wrote: >> >> > On Tue, 2007-04-24 at 17:22 -0400, Mike - EMAIL IGNORED wrote: >> >> Ok FC4 with KDE, whenever I insert a CD, a "cdrecorder Konquerer" >> >> window pops up. How can I prevent this? It is rarely what >> >> I want. >> > >> > What do you want it to do? By default, the insertion of CD (or any >> > other media that the system can see was changed without user help) >> > will bring up some sort of browser so you can see what's on it. In KDE, >> > it brings up Konqueror. In Gnome, it brings up Nautilus. If the media >> > is a blank CD or DVD, then the media will be "handed" to cdrecorder so >> > you can burn stuff on it if you wish. >> > >> > This is tunable in the preferences. Under KDE, go to the Control Center >> > and select "Peripherals->Storage Media". In there, you can select the >> > various media types and what you want to have happen when that media is >> > seen. >> > >> Thanks for your suggestion. As root, I selected a lot of big red >> X's, and now, when I am root and put in a CD, it does exactly what >> I want: nothing. I then logged in as a user, and did the same thing. >> But the big red X's had no effect, and the window still pops when >> I put in a CD. For a user, it also pops a window that says "Access >> denied to /media/cdrecorder." I would prefer that neither window >> appear. The disk is not blank, it is an iso9660. > > The changes you made in control panel as root will only affect root. > It's a user-specific preference--even though it doesn't appear as such. > > At least Gnome (for all its faults) does group such things under a > "Preferences" header (which sounds user-specific) rather than "Control > Center" (which sounds global--at least to me). > >> Thanks again for your thoughts. > > "That's what we're here for!" (c)2007, Fedora List (that's a joke, > gang! No flames!) > [...] I set the Preferences both as the used and as root. It only worked for root. Mike.
