Re: how to get a mounted USB stick icon on desktop

[Paolo Alexis Falcone <pfalcone@gmail.com>]

On Fri, 29 Oct 2004 15:25:13 -0400, H. S. <greatexcalibur@yahoo.com> wrote:
> I am using udev to detect and mount a USB external floppy drive. When I
> mount the floppy drive, an icon appears on the desktop and when I umount
> it, it dissappears. Recently I added a udev rule to mount a USB stick in
> a similar fashion but I am not getting the icon for the mounted USB
> stick on the desktop. What am I missing here? I also mount/umount the
> 'disk mounter' utility of gnome panels.
> 
> Running Debian Unstable on Dell Inspiron 5160 laptop with kernel 2.6.7.
> {~}> dpkg -l udev
> Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
> | Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed
> |/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err:
> uppercase=bad)
> ||/ Name                      Version                   Description
> +++-=========================-=========================-==================================================================
> ii  udev                      0.040-1                   /dev/ management
> daemon
> {~}> lsmod | grep us
> mousedev               10704  1
> psmouse                20616  0
> usbcore               117440  4 uhci_hcd,ehci_hcd
> {~}> lsmod | grep scsi
> scsi_mod              127492  1 sd_mod

Have you tried installing  gnome-volume-manager? Afaik it deals with
this pretty well - I sure wish they have this on KDE too though :D
-- 
Paolo Alexis Falcone
pfalcone@gmail.com