[Wolves] Auto display of mounted drives on Gnome desktop

[David Goodwin]

>> Under some distros, the mounted drives automatically appear on
>> the desktop. Does anyone know how I can achieve that in Ubuntu? I've 
>> searched
>> but not found anything.
>>
> 
> ubuntu have gone for a clean desktop with no clutter.  I think your 
> mounted drives appear under the places menu. This is where things like 
> GNOME favourites appear.
> 
> I don't have any removable media on this laptop so it's difficult to 
> check but I think this is the action that is specified.
> 
> Although the mount for jennie docs (a samba share) appears on the desktop.
> 

Warty mounts certainly appear on the desktop, and to the best of my 
knowledge so do Hoary (at least they appear to on Kat's laptop here)


I think you have to be logged into Gnome _before_ putting in the 
CD/memory stick etc.. otherwise it doesn't know who to mount them for etc.



David.


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