Re: [Dapper] How to get mounted disk show on the desktop

It's things like this that make me question the GNOME philosophy. It
seems that they try to make things so "easy" that changing something
that should be a matter of pointing and clicking maybe twice becomes
overly complicated.

But that's just my opinion.

Mike

On Mon, Feb 27, 2006 at 07:20:46PM +0100, Vincent Trouilliez wrote:
On Mon, 2006-02-27 at 18:24 +0100, Loïc Martin wrote:
Hi,
Dapper doesn't show mounted disks on the desktop (as icons) like Breezy
does. It's really annoying and I'd like to know how an user could reset
the default as it was on Breezy.

Two things come to mind :

a) In Dapper there is indeed a regression from Breezy, where Nautilus
would not show mounted partitions. To fix this, go to Gconf and navigate
to System->Storage, then you will see an option to "display internal
hard-drives". In my experience, it won't take effect immediately though,
even restarting Nautilus wasn't enough, even logging out wasn't enough,
I had to reboot the machine, somehow.

b) Second thing, not specific to Dapper, is another key in Gconf:

Apps->Nautilus->Desktop

and enable the option "Volumes visible". This will put icons on the
Desktop for all your mounted partitions.


HTH

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