On Sun, 21 Aug 2011 15:01:03 +0100, AG wrote:
On Debian stable, the WM Xfce4 is not enabling an icon of an inserted
disk - CD/ DVD - to be drawn to the desktop. If it is an audio CD, then
the desired app will launch (ditto with a video DVD), but I can still
find no way to browse the actual disk contents, not even via /media/*.
Nothing under "/media"... hum, well, and where's your CD/DVD then? :-)
Insert a CD or DVD, run "mount" and put here the output. Dmesg could be
another option.
I have followed the directions given at
http://thunar.xfce.org/documentation/C/ … media.html
<http://thunar.xfce.org/documentation/C/using-removable-media.html> and
have all the relevant options selected, but still nada.
I raised this question on the Xfce forum and the response was: "Xfce
uses an abstraction layer to be able to deal with most of those
technologies but if it does not work you have to fix the underlying
stuff (fix HAL/polkit permissions, install I don't know what service,
etc)."
He's quite right. Distributions tend to customize these packages (gnome/
kde/xfce...) to fit their requirements or likings.
This is over my head, so basically - is this a Debian issue, Xfce4 issue
Let's say it is just "a issue" :-)
and in any event ... does someone have a suggestion on how to fix it,
because the official documentation available doesn't lend itself to
resolving this issue.
No idea about Xfce. In GNOME there is an option (via gconf-editor) to set
if media volumes icons have to be visible on the desktop or not ("/apps/
nautilus/desktop/volumes_visible") but in XFCE I dunno :-?