block cdrecorder Konquerer

Mike - EMAIL IGNORED m_d_berger_1900 at yahoo.com
Wed Apr 25 17:00:24 UTC 2007


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.






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