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On Sun, 21 Nov 2004 12:43:45 +0000 Simon Waters <simon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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I suspect this one is solved in 2.8 but...
Is there a simple way to make GNOME autoplay audio CDs and DVD in 2.6?
Things with filesystems are easily handled by GNOME, make sure there
is the appropriate fstab entry, plug in your CD, USB stick, or other
removable media, and a filemanager window opens, and an icon appears.
I just want to do similar for non-filesystem media - not so much
lazy, as I want to launch an application nicely tuned to do the
"right thing", to avoid confusing newbies. I'm sure I saw a menu
somewhere to do this.
Simon, still converting to GNOME, but beginning to appreciate some
of it nice points, and swearing at its multimedia handling
oddities... The various MP3 apps all share their playlists as nice
XML files bueatifully, if only they all were as willing to share the
sound subsystem as readily<sigh>.
PS: Totem rocks. All I need now is better speakers - sigh.
I've not played around with GNOME in a long time (I'm not one for "integrated" desktop thingies...) but I discovered this app called CDDE (Compact Disk Detect and Execute) a while ago. Basically, it runs as a background process and keeps and eye on the activities of your CD/DVD drive (well, opening and closing). When the drive closes, it polls it for the type of disc that's been inserted. It has an XML config file that's really easy to figure out, and you can put your own entries in there as to what should happen when a certain disc type is inserted. If you don't want it to do anything with data CDs, then you don't put an entry in the config file. http://ericlathrop.com/cdde/ Grant. -- Artificial intelligence is no match for nuratal stidutipy. -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG Mail majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxx with "unsubscribe list" in the message body to unsubscribe.