On Sunday 20 June 2010 09:28:54 am C wrote:
On Sat, Jun 19, 2010 at 23:57, Michael S. Dunsavage wrote:
On 06/19/2010 05:42 PM, Stan Goodman wrote:
In my v11,2 laptop machine, when a USB stick is inserted, a corresponding icon appears on the Desktop, through which one can do many things, including ejecting the device.
In my desktop machine, in contrast, this important and handy icon does not appear. Worse, if there is a way to eject the stick by use of anything in the GUI, I haven't found it.
How can I get the same convenient icon on the Desktop machine?
Assuming it's KDE you're using (I haven't used Gnome anywhere near enough to know the answer) add the widget "Device Notifier".
I put it on my desktop, but it works well in the system tray as well.
The Device Notifier should be there in the bottom bar/panel by default (looks like a monitor on a stand). In 4.4 it's merged into the systray. Prior to the latest 4.4, it should be found (default location on openSUSE) on the left of the panel near the desktop pager. If it's missing, you removed it, or something else went wrong with your install or updates. Regardless, as Michael said, you can add it back as he described.
It's there. Clicking on it opens the small window that appears aanyway automatically when I insert the USB stick. When the stick is present, the window contains an icon for it, and a name for the volume. When I over on this, there appears under this is, in a smaller font, "2 actions for this device". Clicking there brings up the screen that, in kde3, would appear automatically (Open window, Do nothing, etc). I do not see a way to learn what the second available action might be, but I suppose it would be Eject. So the problem remains: How can I eject the stick? How also can I remove the extra Device Notifier windows that seem permanently displayed, whether or not any device is present. If the Device Notifier is malfunctioning, which seems likely, how can I repair it, short of reinstalling v11.2 from scratch. And as an aside, this widget (even were it to be working properly) seems to me to be vastly inferior to the version in my laptop, in which an icon simply appears on the desktop, and its menu offers quite a few options.
Once you've found your Device Notifier, click on it to open it up. Hover the mouse over the USB device in the list of attached devices, and click the disconnect button to the right of the mounted device name. There is a handy tooltip that shows up if you hover over the it and tells you that you click that button to safely remove.
You can also just open a file manager (Dolphin) and right-click on the USB device name on the left column. You will get a "Safely remove" option in the popup menu.
If you're just trying to find the USB device to mount/open it... when you plug it in, it's added to the list of devices in the Device notifier. You can click on it to mount and open it from there, or you just open a file manager (Dolphin) and pick it from the list on the left.
C.
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