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Re: [LUG] permissions and potential new user

 

On Thu, 2007-08-16 at 23:22 +0100, Brad Rogers wrote:

> In KDE[0], that can be altered from the Control Centre;
> Desktop-Behaviour then the "Device Icons" tab.  Mark the "Show device
> icons:" box, then tick all the devices you want shown.
The icon showed yesterday. Both with a blank cd (not mounted actually)
and one with data (I didn't check if it was mounted).
> 
> [0] I've seen you mention Gnome & KDE, so don't know which is your
> preferred DE.  I never use Gnome so can't tell you how the above is
> done there. 
I usually use KDE but I went over to GNOME which my friend liked and
thought she could use (I can do this on logging in with (K)ubuntu).
> 
> If you want an icon showing for the drive, right click on the desktop
> and select "Create New.." then "Link to device" and select the most
> appropriate one and pointing it (Properties/Device) to the correct
> device from the drop-down list.
Did this. Clicking on it, it tells me the desktop entry is of type
FSDevice but has no Dev=... entry. I'll delete it.
> 
> > Should I now try the suid line you suggested involving wacom?
> 
> That was "wodim", not "wacom".  Wodim has replaced cdrecord.  At least,
> it has in Debian Testing/Lenny.  See what comes up in K3b
> Settings/Configure K3b.../Programs
> 
> From ~/.kde/share/config/k3brc the relevant bit is headed 
> [External Programs]

It begins:
[Devices]
PHILIPS CDRW/DVD SCB5265=706,3324,auto,auto
device_search_path=/dev/scd0
...
[External Programs]
cdrdao default=/usr/bin/X11/cdrdao
cdrdao last seen newest version=1.2.1
cdrdao user parameters=
cdrecord default=/usr/bin/X11/cdrecord.mmap
cdrecord last seen newest version=2.1.1a01
cdrecord user parameters=
dvd+rw-format default=/usr/bin/X11/dvd+rw-format
dvd+rw-format last seen newest version=4.10
dvd+rw-format user parameters=
eMovix user parameters=
growisofs default=/usr/bin/X11/growisofs
growisofs last seen newest version=5.21
growisofs user parameters=
mkisofs default=/usr/bin/X11/mkisofs
mkisofs last seen newest version=2.1-unofficial-iconv
mkisofs user parameters=
normalize user parameters=
readcd default=/usr/bin/X11/readcd
readcd last seen newest version=2.1
readcd user parameters=
search
path=/usr/bin/,/usr/local/bin/,/usr/sbin/,/usr/local/sbin/,/opt/schily/bin/,/sbin
sox user parameters=
tccat user parameters=
tcdecode user parameters=
tcextract user parameters=
tcprobe user parameters=
tcscan user parameters=
transcode user parameters=
vcdxbuild user parameters=
vcdxminfo user parameters=
vcdxrip user parameters=

> 
james kilty
http://www.kilty.demon.co.uk


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