Sorry to say, it's not a permission issue. (.trinity is u+rw and I should see an error in the strace output if otherwise)

I cannot figure out kcontrol does or does not when I do "Peripherials/Storage Media", there select "Defaults" and "Apply":

- It does not write any config file. - It does nothing that shows up in the hal log - It does nothing that shows up in the dbus log

I'm a bit stuck here :-/

Nik

Am Montag, 14. März 2011 schrieb Kristopher Gamrat:

On Sun, Mar 13, 2011 at 4:26 PM, Mag. Dr. Nikolaus Klepp

office@klepp.biz wrote:

...

Hi!

At last I made the transition to trinity + squeeze with the last of my boxes, the infamous office box. I saw my desktop go down in flames (which actually was the falt of som weired xorg problem) and raise from the ashes 2 days later. After all I am very satisfied, I didn't loose my kwallet nor my kmail settings and date - in fact I didn't loose anything important :-)

There is only one issue left, that I was not able to correct: the medium application autostart does not work as I exect it.

What I got so far:

After I log in, plug in a DVD or USB storage device. Usually there should pop up a dialog asdking me what medium was found and what to do next. Now that dialog does not show up. But when I open konqueror and go to media:/ I see the plugged in device (not mounted). I can open it from there. I unplug the USB device, the icon disappears as expected. I start kcontol, go to "Peripherials/Storage Media", there select "Defaults" and "Apply", close kcontrol, plug in the USB storage device and the famouse dialogbox shows up! When I log out and log in again the dialogbox does not show up until I open kcontrol and do these steps.

Now I cannot find what kcontrol does at this stage to make things work. I tried strace, but kcontol does not change the contents of any file in .trinity. It opens and reads these files, but nothing is written:

.trinity/share/apps/konqueror/servicemenus .trinity/share/apps/konqueror/servicemenus/xine-dvd.desktop .trinity/share/config/kcontrolrc .trinity/share/config/kdeglobals .trinity/share/config/khtmlrc .trinity/share/config/kio_httprc .trinity/share/config/kioslaverc .trinity/share/config/medianotifierrc

xine-dvd.desktop plays DVDs, if inserted. At least when I first start kcontrol ;-)

I made a diff from the ~/.trinity tree befor and after running kcontrol, but there are no changes.

So, is there a way how I can get the medium autoplay to work?

Nik

My guess is that your permissions for .trinity got messed up somehow. You'll need read and write permissions for everything in .trinity (you should have read and write for your user for everything in his home anyway). From a terminal (Konsole or whatever you prefer)

ls -l ~/.trinity/share/config

The permissions (rwx) are what matter. You should have rw on them, I don't think the x should matter for config files since you can't execute them. If you have rw, then I don't know what's wrong. If you don't have rw, then you'll need to get them:

chmod -R u+rw ~/.trinity

(don't include the x because not everything needs it and i don't know what binaries and non-binaries are there that could be affected and messed up) (don't include the full path to the files, we want to make sure you don't run into any other permissions problems by setting rw for everything to make sure your user can save settings)

*If* it complains that you can't do that, then you'll need root or sudo to try to give yourself permission:

sudo chmod -R u+rw /home/username/.trinity

(if you don't have sudo priveleges for your user, you'll need root) (if you are root, you don't need sudo)

Let us know if this helps or not.

On Mon, Mar 14, 2011 at 4:59 AM, David Hare davidahare@gmail.com wrote:

Maybe you're looking in the wrong place....

I think, it's kcontrol > KDE Components > Service Manager

The "Media Notifier Daemon"  needs to be checked

<snip>

Unless it's the one specific module in kcontrol, I doubt it will save that after logout. I doubt that's the problem either, I think it's just not a setting that was set correctly, hence the need for setting the defaults anyway.

Strange, I run squeeze also, notification daemon works fine here, I can toggle it on and off at will (sometimes for me it can be a nuisance)

The file in question seems to be ~/.trinity/share/config/kdedrc

Here is mine:

[$Version] update_info=kded.upd:kde3.0

[Module-homedirnotify] autoload=true

[Module-knemod] autoload=true

[Module-kwrited] autoload=true

[Module-mediamanager] autoload=true

[Module-medianotifier] autoload=true

[Module-remotedirnotify] autoload=true

[Module-systemdirnotify] autoload=true

Are other files in .trinity getting updated normally? You can tell by the date stamps using ls or konq in detailed list mode

OK folks, I found it :-)

The mediumautostart does not work, if this section exists in ~/.trinity/share/config/kdesktoprc:

[Media] enabled=false

Steps to reproduce: That section is not there from the beginning, it's introduced by kcontrol. Start kcontrol, go to "Desktop/Behaviour/Device Icons". Unselect any (e.g. "My Computer"), "Apply". (I'm not sure it "Apply" is necessary). Next time you log in, the mediumautomounter does not start. Putting a checkmark in front of "My Computer" does not revert this setting, you'll have to edit ~/.trinity/share/config/kdesktoprc and change it to:

[Media] enabled=true

Now that was a funny day ;-)

Could somebody please try to reproduce?

Nik

Am Montag, 14. März 2011 schrieb Mag. Dr. Nikolaus Klepp:

Well, yes, my file is basicly the same. It represents the state of the checkmarks. But it looks like the "Module-medianotifier" does not start, or it ignores that it should do something.

Nik

Am Montag, 14. März 2011 schrieb David Hare:

...

Strange, I run squeeze also, notification daemon works fine here, I can toggle it on and off at will (sometimes for me it can be a nuisance)

The file in question seems to be ~/.trinity/share/config/kdedrc

Here is mine:

[$Version] update_info=kded.upd:kde3.0

[Module-homedirnotify] autoload=true

[Module-knemod] autoload=true

[Module-kwrited] autoload=true

[Module-mediamanager] autoload=true

[Module-medianotifier] autoload=true

[Module-remotedirnotify] autoload=true

[Module-systemdirnotify] autoload=true

Are other files in .trinity getting updated normally? You can tell by the date stamps using ls or konq in detailed list mode

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