USB disks on the gnome desktop in F11 beta

[Matthias Clasen]

On Fri, 2009-04-10 at 16:53 -0500, Allen Kistler wrote:

> The easiest way is to install gconf-editor.  Then go to 
> /apps/nautilus/preferences and ...
> 
> 1. uncheck media_automount
> 2. uncheck media_automount_open
> 3. check media_autorun_never

media_automount is not used by nautilus anymore, afaics. 
The other two are conveniently available in the media tab of the
nautilus preferences...

> 
> Back in F9 days, you used to be able to tell hal not to notify Gnome 
> when a medium was inserted.  Now Gnome checks on its own.  Argh.
> 

That is not true. Gnome in F11 relies on DeviceKit-disks for this
purpose.


Matthias