how to make a desktop icon for a device?

[Thierry de Coulon]

On Saturday, 2 April 2005 11.46, LeVA wrote:
> Hi!
>
> I heard that it is possible to configure kde, so when I attach my pendrive
> or camera to an usb slot, an icon will appear on my desktop, and I can
> mount and watch the contents of my device, and after disconnecting my stuff
> the icon will disappear.
>
> Anyone knows how to achieve this?
>
> Thanks!
> Daniel

Hi!

I know of two ways to achieve this:

If you right-click on the desktop and click "configure desktop", you have a 
third tab names "Device Icons". There you may select what should appear or 
not

Now, if you have some kind of automount working, then a hotplug device should 
pop up on your desktop when connected.

If you prefer manual mount (that's my case) you can add your device 
in /etc/fstab and you can add an icon for the unmounted device (or one will 
show automaticaly, it depends).

In my case, I have a line in fstab for my nfs share, but it's "noauto" 
mounted, so an icon for an unmounted network share is shown on the desktop, 
and I can manually mount the share if necessary.

Maybe there are other ways to do that,

Thierry

-- 
"Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not
sure about the former" - Albert Einstein
___________________________________________________
This message is from the kde mailing list.
Account management:  https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde.
Archives: http://lists.kde.org/.
More info: http://www.kde.org/faq.html.