[...] > Using 'eject' doesnt work either? Well, actually using "eject" in thunar gives me a very generic error: Failed to eject "WD Passport". An unknown error occured.
> Maybe a more general solution (using hal or udev rules, or something like > that) would be better, and cross-desktop? Well, I tried my best at writing a script (sorry, my skills are really quite low) that would be executed whenever I plugin the hdd (via a udev-rule) and give me a notification icon (with zenity) with which I could eject it. The script seemed to work fine with xubuntu 7.10 but since I switched to 8.04 it's stuck again in a loop... you can inspect the great failure here (if you really like): http://pastebin.org/32753 (However if you simply execute this script in a shell it does exactly what I ask for. The problem seems to be that udev doesn't really execute the RUN-command in a shell.) > What an ugly workaround (my impression is that the Ubuntu folks are > great at implementing ugly workarounds instead of fixing the real > issue). hmmm, yeah, well I guess you're right. As I said, I'm really not good at this. > Forgot to ask one thing: do you have an "eject" button for your drive, > or only "unmount"? The Xfce 4.4.2 release was somewhat buggy regarding > the detection of removable media and providing the eject funktion in > the GUI. If you only see "unmount" in the context menu of the drive, > you could try exo-eject in the command line to see if that works for > you. As mentioned above, I do see the "eject" button. Anyways, I tried "exo-eject" to see whether this would give me a more comprehensive error message, well here it is (the command I ran was "exo-eject -h SAME_AS_BELOW -e"): Failed to eject "/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/storage_serial_WD_1200BEVExternal_575845333037343330353232_0_0". No property info.interfaces on device with id /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/storage_serial_WD_1200BEVExternal_575845333037343330353232_0_0. > My girlfried owns a WD Passort drive (2,5" external 160 GB hard disk), > so I'll try to reproduce the issue. thanks, sounds great! greetings, simon _______________________________________________ Thunar-dev mailing list [email protected] http://foo-projects.org/mailman/listinfo/thunar-dev
