Desktop device icons do not show at all

[Mike]

Thanks, Justin --

I have all those services running, except dbus. Is this a new requirement for 
KDE? I had icons in kde 3.3 without dbus. I can run devfsd. Would that make a 
difference?

On Tuesday 20 September 2005 11:06, Justin Denick wrote:
> You must have something running in the background that will monitor for
> theses devices.
>
> As I understand it, dbus will monitor changes in your userspace and tell
> the kernel when something happens. Like you plugging in your jump-drive or
> a printer. From there udev will name/type the device according to
> predefined rules in /etc. I believe from there hotplug will recognize the
> device (placed appropriately by udev in /dev) as whatever it is and load
> the appropriate modules. It is at this point the HAL daemon will tell kde
> to plop a pretty little icon on your desktop.
>
> I may be off on a few points here so if anybody has a better, more accurate
> description, please let us know.
>
> On 9/20/05, mikeumo at sbcglobal.net <mikeumo at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> > Hello --
> >
> > I checked all the icons I like in "Configure desktop > etc.", including
> > the
> > unmounted devices. Yet there are no icons on my desktop (after kde
> > restart).
> >
> > Can someone help me?
> >
> > mike.
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