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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 -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html