At Wed, 4 Oct 2006 09:49:04 +0200 Florian Kulzer wrote, "What happens is that an icon pops up on your desktop after you insert a pluggable device or removable media, but it is not mounted." Yes; for a USB storage stick, an icon appears in the xfce4 desktop in etch here. For an audio CD, this behaviour is absent, although "lshal --monitor" reports the insertion. What else might be needed for the CD? Thanks, ... Peter E.