Peppercorn Posted December 9, 2003 Report Share Posted December 9, 2003 Hi, I am setting up a mandrake box for a friend and he asked me if I can change the desktop a bit. I am running kde and he asked if I could change the writing under the CD rom and Floppy to just "Cdrom" + "Floppy" instead of /mnt/dev/cd0 or whatever is normal. Is there a way?? thanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bvc Posted December 9, 2003 Report Share Posted December 9, 2003 can't ya just rt-click>rename? Or does it change back next session? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
liquidzoo Posted December 9, 2003 Report Share Posted December 9, 2003 The features you're seeing are due to supermount still being enabled. You can, however turn off the icons (in the desktop properties, I forgot where) and make your own shortcuts with whatever you want on them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bvc Posted December 9, 2003 Report Share Posted December 9, 2003 oh yeah, forgot about sm doing that in kde ;) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest kuchwas Posted December 9, 2003 Report Share Posted December 9, 2003 oh yeah, forgot about sm doing that in kde ;) It's that big silver shiny thing below your name blinding you! hehe B) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peppercorn Posted December 9, 2003 Author Report Share Posted December 9, 2003 Thanks for the replies but I still can'twork outhow to do it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
liquidzoo Posted December 9, 2003 Report Share Posted December 9, 2003 It's in your K-menu -> Configuration -> Look N' Feel -> Desktop There's an option near the bottom of one of the tabs for Dynamic desktop icons (?) or something similar to that. If you uncheck the option to use them, the icons will go away. After that, right click on your desktop and create a new link for your cdrom(s), floppy, etc. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peppercorn Posted December 9, 2003 Author Report Share Posted December 9, 2003 Thanks mate, yea it's easy once you know A? ButI looked for an hour and couldn't make the connection anywhere! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peppercorn Posted December 9, 2003 Author Report Share Posted December 9, 2003 OK I set off too soon!!! How do I mount them now?? And then how do I mountthem automatically?? thanks brains of the outfitt! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
liquidzoo Posted December 9, 2003 Report Share Posted December 9, 2003 If you have supermount enabled, they will mount automatically once a cd is inserted. Should be great after that. If you don't have supermount (I, as well as a lot of other people disable it as almost the first thing we do) then you just right click on your brand new cdrom icon and choose the mount option. Remember that you have to unmount it before you can eject the cd. Just in case, you did do the create new -> cd/dvdrom device for your cd, right? If not, you will need to do so for it to work right. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peppercorn Posted December 9, 2003 Author Report Share Posted December 9, 2003 Yea OK, I can dig that. But I do apologise for one more newbie question!!!!! How do you disable supermount?? I hav'nt seen that option anywhere either. Thanks one more time!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
liquidzoo Posted December 9, 2003 Report Share Posted December 9, 2003 Open up a terminal. su to root and type supermount -i disable That's the easiest way I've found, anyway. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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