[ale] more on RedHat's Null desktop -- vent mode!

[James P. Kinney III]

If you have the CD icon on the desktop, try a right click to get the
popup menu and then select eject.

If you don't have the icon, try a right click on the desktop background
and select add new device->CD.

At least this process worked with a KDE3.0 on Yellowdog on an iMac.

On Tue, 2002-09-17 at 14:57, cfowler wrote:
> In KDE 3.  It seems I can not eject a CD by pressing the eject button. 
> I have to run an xterm and tyype the eject command.  Is there another
> way?
> 
> 
> On Tue, 2002-09-17 at 14:52, Sean Kilpatrick wrote:
> > On Tuesday 17 September 2002 01:13 pm, Charles Shapiro wrote:
> > > (". . .corporate desktop and cube drones . . .") That would be me.
> > > Making machines which anyone can sit down & find their way around on
> > > regardless of window manager choice is a reasonable thing to do.
> > 
> > <START Rant>
> > As someone moving to Linux from OS/2 I have to say the Linux
> > desktop has a way to go to be useable by the moderately competent
> > user migrating from a winbloze box.
> > Simple example:
> >   insert previously used floppy into drive and try to delete all
> > but one file to make room for others that need to be moved via
> > sneaker net.  If that floppy were previously used on a Win box,
> > it's FORGETABOUTIT!!  The files can't be deleted. Joe NewLinuxUser
> > can reformat the floppy but he can't delete the files. He has to be
> > able to open a root account to change the permissions. (And know how
> > to do that. Remember that Linux shell commands differ from DOS
> > commands so new Linux user _must_ learn an entirely new set
> > of commands. Until he does he is damn near helpless.)
> > Result: instant frustration.
> > 
> > I bang my head against this sort of thing damn near daily on this RH
> > Linux box.  Today, it's trying to pull pix from a digital camera.
> > The Linux box can clearly see the camera on the USB port. (Using the
> > KDE GUI to look at USB devices, I see the following:
> > 
> > -------------- <copied data> --------------------------------
> > Vendor ID     0x4cb   (Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.)
> > Product ID    0x100   (FinePix 4700 Zoom digital camrea) (_sic_)
> > Revision
> > 16.0
> > 
> > Speed         12 Mbit/s
> > Channels      0
> > Max. Packet
> > Size          0
> > ------------------- <end copy> -----------------------------
> > 
> > But I can't for the life of me figure out how to access the pix.
> > 
> > <fi>
> > 
> > <sigh>
> > 
> > Sean
> > 
> > PS I'm not happy about RedHat's decision on desktop GUIs. I like 
> > my KDE and want to be able to access all its features. That means
> > working through the KDE site, which means learning a helleva lot
> > more about the underpinnings of Linux than I really want to.
> > 
> > 
> > 
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