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- gnome-volume-manager for Debian
- --------------------------------
-
- gnome-volume-manager (gvm) listens on dbus for hal events and takes actions
- based on those events. gvm gets (almost) all information about devices on your
- system from hal, so a functional hal is very important! One can use
- hal-device-manager to view the properties of various devices on
- the system.
-
- For all sections below the corresponding gvm options have to be enabled
- otherwise the actions are not performed.
-
- Mounting devices
- ================
-
- When mounting a device gnome-volume-manager runs /usr/bin/pmount on the device
- node. This means that the corresponding device must have either be removable or
- have an entry in /etc/fstab which is mountable by the user running gvm.
-
- Also to be able to use pmount the user running gvm must be part of the plugdev
- group. For more information about pmount and its policy see the pmount manpage.
-
- Audio, Data and Blank Cd's
- ===========================
-
- gvm uses the hal storage.cdrom.media_type property to detect whether an
- inserted cdrom is either audio, data of a blank Cd. With audio or blank Cd's
- the device node is given as argument to the configured program. Data cdroms are
- considered mountable removable media.
-
- Auto-run programs
- =================
- When a volume is mounted, gvm checks if some configured files exists on the
- media and are executable. The default files are .autorun, autorun and
- autorun.sh, these can be changed by setting the
- '/desktop/gnome/volume_manager/autorun_path' gconf variable.
-
- DVD
- ===
- When a volume is mounted gvm checks if the video_ts or VIDEO_TS directories
- exists on the media to check if it's a DVD video. For a DVD video the
- mountpoint is given as the argument to the configured command.
-
- Digital Camera
- ==============
- When a volume is mounted gvm checks if the dcim directory exists on the media
- to check if it's a camera volume. When this is the case the user is asked if he
- wants to import the photos, if so the configured command is run
- with the path to dcim directory as argument.
-
- -- Sjoerd Simons <sjoerd@debian.org>, Fri, 09 Apr 2004 17:18:43 +0200
-