Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-kde (78 mails)

[Randall R Schulz <rschulz@xxxxxxxxx>]

Andrew,

On Saturday 29 January 2005 15:40, Andrew Williams wrote:
> Randall R Schulz wrote:
> > Klause, Craig,
> >
> > On Saturday 29 January 2005 05:08, Klaus Layer wrote:
> >>Hi Craig,
> >>
> >>some time ago I had the same problem. It occured after my upgrade
> >> to SUSE 9.2 which actives subfs by default. The cause was that I
> >> had a symbolic link floppy to /media/floppy in /, an entry in
> >> /etc/fstab for the floppy drive, but no floppy drive. ...
> >
> > I do the same (keep a symbolic link to /media/floppy in /) and
> > rarely have a diskette in the drive but have not experienced this
> > symptom.
> >
> > On the other hand, every time I copy (to the clipboard) in a KDE
> > application (but not in other applications such as Mozilla or Java
> > GUIs), the diskette drive is accessed, making a distinctive pattern
> > of sounds.
> >
> >>Regards,
> >>
> >>Klaus
> >
> > Randall Schulz
>
> Sorry, but that is *not* the same.
>
> There is a major difference between having a floppy drive which does
> not contain a disc, and not having that drive at all.

Yes, I suspected you might have meant that, but it wasn't entirely clear 
(it's not too far-fetched to hypothesize that "in the" got lost in 
editing your message).

But since I do so wish I could keep my diskette from activating every 
time I copy something to the clipboard in a native KDE application, I 
never pass up the opportunity to mention that odd symptom in the hopes 
that it will catch the eye of someone in the know who will then tell me 
how to prevent it from happening.


> ...


Randall Schulz