On 09/01/2009 07:07 AM, Girish Venkatachalam wrote:
On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 10:49 PM, bala
chandar<[email protected]> wrote:
Hi luggies,
I know that by using autorun.inf file and bat file we can create
autoplay cd's in windows.But i want to know how to create autoplay
cd's in linux.
Good question. ;)
Let us see if anyone answers it.
There is automount in Gnome, KDE and other graphical
environments.
There is no concept of autoplay I think.
That's quite right, as far as I know. However, if I'm not mistaken, the Gnome
Desktop (or rather the nautilus file manager) will pop up a prompt if it see an
autorun.[sh|exe] file on the CD.
hmmm ...after a quick glace at gconf settings[1], I see that nautilus has some
gconf keys named /apps/nautilus/preferences/media_autorun_*. You may want to
google for those.
double hmmm ...after looking at the nautilus preferences (Open a File Manager
window -> Edit -> Preferences -> Media), I see an option where one can configure
'what happens when inserting media or connecting devices to the system' ...which
also lists 'Software' ...but like all things Gnome, there is no clue what
'exactly' that would do, instead you are left to make guesses about what that
means for 'an average desktop user' :)
So, you answer the question -- you cannot be sure the CD you create will
autoplay in linux. However, _if_ the user uses Gnome, _and_ is using it's
default file manager (Nautilus) _and_ has not changed the default preferences,
there will be a prompt shown to the user asking whether the autorun.sh file
should be run.
HTH,
cheers,
- steve
[1] using gconf-editor and searching for 'autorun' in both keys and values.
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