On Wednesday 15 December 2004 16:40, Derek Broughton wrote: > On Wednesday 15 December 2004 15:45, Rainer Dorsch wrote: > > Thanks for your replies. Although kcontrol center comes close, it does > > not do what I really need: > > > > - usb stick plugged off: no icon > > - usb stick plugged in: icon (not mounted) > > - usb stick plugged in and mounted: icon (mounted) > > > > Case 2 and 3 work already today, but I do not see case 1 working. > > > > My assumption is that knoppix creates with hotplug scipts Desktop files > > like > > I'd like to understand how this works, because my CDRW does exactly what > you want - I have no icon if the drive isn't in its bay, an unmounted Icon > most of the time, and a mounted icon when it's actually in use. I got that > behaviour entirely accidentally. The unmounted floppy icon is _always_ on > the desktop, even though it shares the bay with the CDRW, so at most one of > them should be on my desktop.
Oh, well, I guess I should rtfm... Turns out I had CD-ROM and Floppy images on my desktop from Desktop config files, rather than from kcontrol settings. It's looking better now, though there's still a floppy icon on the desktop - but iirc when I accidentally made the CDRW icon work right, it didn't work completely correctly until I rebooted the laptop. -- derek
