In 11.4, I put in a stick, a popup asked me what to do, I selected open in new window, and went on about my business. When business finished, I went updir in that window, right clicked, and selected safely remove. Safely remove is denied in 13.1, "not authorized to perform operation". AFAICT, I can only eject as root user. I looked through the entire kde3 mailing list archive from October 2013 on without seeing this mentioned, and Googling "opensuse usb not authorized to perform operation 13.1 kde3" turned up nothing directly on apparent point, only about 12.3 and no more HAL or kio_slave. How/where does one authorize user ejection? Would updating to whatever's in the Trident repo help? If this is as simple as enabling the KDE3HAL repo to get HAL and the missing kio, why is KDE3HAL a separate repo? What's the downside? Mount output with a native stick inserted: /dev/sdg1 on /media/KNOPPIX72 type ext4 (rw,nosuid,nodev,noatime,sync,data=ordered,uhelper=udisks) Mount output with a NTFS stick inserted: /dev/sdg1 on /media/KINGS101G2 type fuseblk (rw,nosuid,nodev,noatime,sync,user_id=0,group_id=0,default_permissions,allow_other,blksize=4096) Mount output with a VFAT stick inserted: /dev/sdg1 on /media/STORE N GO type vfat (rw,nosuid,nodev,noatime,sync,uid=1050,gid=1000,fmask=0022,dmask=0077,codepage=437,iocharset=iso8859-1,shortname=mixed,showexec,utf8,errors=remount-ro,uhelper=udisks) gvfsd-fuse on /run/user/1050/gvfs type fuse.gvfsd-fuse (rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,user_id=1050,group_id=1000) -- "The wise are known for their understanding, and pleasant words are persuasive." Proverbs 16:21 (New Living Translation) Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 ** a11y rocks! Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-kde3+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-kde3+owner@opensuse.org