RE: [gentoo-user] How to make Gentoo more Ubuntu like
-Original Message- From: Nick Rout [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, April 30, 2006 7:58 PM To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] How to make Gentoo more Ubuntu like The wiki is the place for it I believe. There is already a kde howto: http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_D-BUS%2C_HAL%2C_KDE_media:/ On Sat, 29 Apr 2006 20:47:26 -0400 JimD wrote: Does anyone have any good link on making Gentoo a little more user-friendly like Ubunut? I am looking for basic home user stuff for my wife such as: Automount/play a music CD, DVD Automout a USB camera Little basic things like that. I personally just mount /mnt/cdrom, but trying to get my wife to do that or anything manual gets me in trouble : ) Jim -- [Timothy A. Holmes] I would be interested in making this happen under fluxbox as well --- Particularly automounting usb key drives, as well as the flash cards from my digital camera THANKS TIM Timothy A. Holmes IT Manager / Network Admin / Web Master / Computer Teacher Medina Christian Academy A Higher Standard... Jeremiah 33:3 Jeremiah 29:11 Esther 4:14 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] How to make Gentoo more Ubuntu like
On 01/05/06, Timothy A. Holmes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[snip...]
I would be interested in making this happen under fluxbox as well ---
Particularly automounting usb key drives, as well as the flash cards
from my digital camera
Well you could used fbdesk if you want icons on your desktop, or if
you prefer a minimalistic look like I do, add the appropriate entries
in your /etc/fstab and your fluxbox menu. For example for USB CF or
camera connection I have the following:
/etc/fstab:
=
# Flash Card or Camera
/dev/sda/mnt/sdaauto,vfat,msdos
noauto,user,noatime 0 0
/dev/sda1 /mnt/sda1 auto,vfat,msdos
noauto,user,noatime 0 0
=
NOTE: Some CF cards have no partitions because they are formatted as
a large MSDOS floppy disk, hence the first entry. My camera is
mounted using the second entry.
~/.fluxbox/menu:
=
[submenu] (CF and camera)
[exec] (mount CF) {mount /mnt/sda1 konqueror /mnt/sda1}
[exec] (unmount CF) {sync umount /mnt/sda1}
[separator]
[exec] (mount Gizmo) {mount /mnt/sda konqueror /mnt/sda}
[exec] (unmount Gizmo) {sync umount /mnt/sda}
[end]
=
Of course, you could you eject instead of umount.
HTH.
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Regards,
Mick
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Re: [gentoo-user] How to make Gentoo more Ubuntu like
On Sat, 2006-04-29 at 20:47 -0400, JimD wrote: Does anyone have any good link on making Gentoo a little more user-friendly like Ubunut? I am looking for basic home user stuff for my wife such as: Automount/play a music CD, DVD Automout a USB camera Little basic things like that. I personally just mount /mnt/cdrom, but trying to get my wife to do that or anything manual gets me in trouble Hi Jim, I won't bother echoing everyone elses response as to how.. however, out of curiousity I was wondering what your wife's reasoning for wanting Gentoo on her computer is when she does not want to learn how stuff works? :) Christel -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] How to make Gentoo more Ubuntu like
On 4/29/06, Ryan Tandy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Make sure your GNOME packages (esp. gnome-volume-manager and related) are compiled with USE=hal, and make sure the hal and dbus services are started. With those in place, it should Just Work(tm). And also make sure she is a member of the 'plugdev' group. -Richard -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] How to make Gentoo more Ubuntu like
Richard Fish wrote: On 4/29/06, Ryan Tandy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Make sure your GNOME packages (esp. gnome-volume-manager and related) are compiled with USE=hal, and make sure the hal and dbus services are started. With those in place, it should Just Work(tm). And also make sure she is a member of the 'plugdev' group. -Richard Yes, right. I always forget that one. Thanks. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] How to make Gentoo more Ubuntu like
On Sun, 30 Apr 2006 09:46:15 +0100 Christel Dahlskjaer wrote: Hi Jim, I won't bother echoing everyone elses response as to how.. however, out of curiousity I was wondering what your wife's reasoning for wanting Gentoo on her computer is when she does not want to learn how stuff works? :) Christel i get the impression its not jim's wife who wanted gentoo on the laptop :-) -- Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] How to make Gentoo more Ubuntu like
On Sun, 30 Apr 2006, Ryan Tandy wrote: Richard Fish wrote: On 4/29/06, Ryan Tandy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Make sure your GNOME packages (esp. gnome-volume-manager and related) are compiled with USE=hal, and make sure the hal and dbus services are started. With those in place, it should Just Work(tm). And also make sure she is a member of the 'plugdev' group. -Richard Yes, right. I always forget that one. Thanks. It occurs to me that this would make a very nice little howto. Perhaps the best one to write it would be the original asker (Ryan?) since he'll have the feedback from his wife, but if no one else wants to do it I'll do it. Michael -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] How to make Gentoo more Ubuntu like
The wiki is the place for it I believe. There is already a kde howto: http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_D-BUS%2C_HAL%2C_KDE_media:/ On Sat, 29 Apr 2006 20:47:26 -0400 JimD wrote: Does anyone have any good link on making Gentoo a little more user-friendly like Ubunut? I am looking for basic home user stuff for my wife such as: Automount/play a music CD, DVD Automout a USB camera Little basic things like that. I personally just mount /mnt/cdrom, but trying to get my wife to do that or anything manual gets me in trouble : ) Jim -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= There's no place like 127.0.0.1 =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= JimD Central FL, USA, Earth, Sol -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] How to make Gentoo more Ubuntu like
Does anyone have any good link on making Gentoo a little more user-friendly like Ubunut? I am looking for basic home user stuff for my wife such as: Automount/play a music CD, DVD Automout a USB camera Little basic things like that. I personally just mount /mnt/cdrom, but trying to get my wife to do that or anything manual gets me in trouble : ) Jim -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= There's no place like 127.0.0.1 =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= JimD Central FL, USA, Earth, Sol -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] How to make Gentoo more Ubuntu like
Are you running Gnome? HAL can help you automounting, you can make some udev rulez too..On 4/29/06, JimD [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:Does anyone have any good link on making Gentoo a little more user-friendly like Ubunut?I am looking for basic home user stuff formy wife such as:Automount/play a music CD, DVDAutomout a USB cameraLittle basic things like that.I personally just mount /mnt/cdrom, but trying to get my wife to do that or anything manual gets me in trouble: )Jim--=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=There's no place like 127.0.0.1=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= JimDCentral FL, USA, Earth, Sol--gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list-- -Se dueño de tu silencio y no esclavo de tus palabras.
Re: [gentoo-user] How to make Gentoo more Ubuntu like
Jorge Martín wrote: Are you running Gnome? HAL can help you automounting, you can make some udev rulez too.. On 4/29/06, *JimD* [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anyone have any good link on making Gentoo a little more user-friendly like Ubunut? I am looking for basic home user stuff for my wife such as: Automount/play a music CD, DVD Automout a USB camera Little basic things like that. I personally just mount /mnt/cdrom, but trying to get my wife to do that or anything manual gets me in trouble : ) Jim -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= There's no place like 127.0.0.1 http://127.0.0.1 =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= JimD Central FL, USA, Earth, Sol -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailto:gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- -Se dueño de tu silencio y no esclavo de tus palabras. Funny, mine already does that. I stick in a CD and up pops a window, which bugs me sometimes by the way. It even tries to mount my camera but mine requires software to get the pics so it can't, it tries though. Dale :-) -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] How to make Gentoo more Ubuntu like
On Sunday, April 30 2006 10:17, JimD wrote: Does anyone have any good link on making Gentoo a little more user-friendly like Ubunut? I am looking for basic home user stuff for my wife such as: Automount/play a music CD, DVD Automout a USB camera Although I'm not a Gnome user (assuming you're using Gnome) I'm sure that Gnome has support for hal/dbus/pmount for easily mounting and using removeable media. -- Raymond Lewis Rebbeck -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] How to make Gentoo more Ubuntu like
JimD wrote: Does anyone have any good link on making Gentoo a little more user-friendly like Ubunut? I am looking for basic home user stuff for my wife such as: Automount/play a music CD, DVD Automout a USB camera Little basic things like that. I personally just mount /mnt/cdrom, but trying to get my wife to do that or anything manual gets me in trouble : ) Jim Make sure your GNOME packages (esp. gnome-volume-manager and related) are compiled with USE=hal, and make sure the hal and dbus services are started. With those in place, it should Just Work(tm). -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] How to make Gentoo more Ubuntu like
Ryan Tandy wrote: Make sure your GNOME packages (esp. gnome-volume-manager and related) are compiled with USE=hal, and make sure the hal and dbus services are started. With those in place, it should Just Work(tm). Ah, OK. I will give those a try. I hope I don't have too much recompiling : ) Jim -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= There's no place like 127.0.0.1 =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= JimD Central FL, USA, Earth, Sol -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
