I don't want kscd to start when I insert an audio cd

[silversun]

The topic says it already:

I don't want kscd to start when I insert an audio cd

now, HOW??? on earth do I do it? deactivating this feature in kscd doesn't help. this is very anoying and even more anoying is that there is no checkbox connected to this either in kscd nor in the control center...

I don't even know who is starting kscd???

Cheers

[daneel971]

You use gnome?
Somewhere in the menu there's something for media preferencies, or media management , with an option for autoplaying audio cd. Try disable it.

[silversun]

I use KDE. I don't care much about desktop environments as long as I can start emacs and shells that's good enough for me but I'm not gone switch from one to the other everytime I can't fiugre out how to switch off fancy-feature-N of desktop X.

Well, anyway, KDE doesn't seem to have such a checkbos in multimedia->audio-cd settings

[daneel971]

I also use KDE and don't have such a problem. Last try: in your home directory there's the .kde/Autostart folder: delete the autorun file in it.

[silversun]

Yes, that did it. Arghhhh!!! why the heck is there no checkbox somewhere?? Why do I have to delete a file named "Autorun.desktop" to stop the CD player from auto-anoying me????.... What are these people thinking??? I can see why some people think linux is not ready for prime time desktop....

windows has the feature "ask-what-to-do-if-done-for-first-time" since ages. Is it so hard to copy the few good things in windows???

;-))) ... ok ok ... I calm down .. this is not the place to rant about KDE anyway ...;-)

Thanx a lot for the help

[dcmaurer]

The solution is to remove the autorun package. Autorun creates a .desktop file in the ~/.kde/Autorun folder.

After removing this package, kscd won't startup on CD insert.

[daihard]

Originally Posted by dcmaurer

The solution is to remove the autorun package. Autorun creates a .desktop file in the ~/.kde/Autorun folder.

After removing this package, kscd won't startup on CD insert.

I know you replied to my thread about the same issue, too. Actually, you don't really need to remove the autorun package altogether. If you open ~/.kde/Autostart/Aurorun.desktop with a text editor, you will see a line like this towards the end of the file:

Exec=/usr/bin/autorun -l --interval=1000 --cdplayer="/usr/bin/kscd"

All you have to do is change the last parameter to look like cdplayer="" and save the file. This way you will be able to use autorun for its other features if necessary.

(BTW, they don't use this method with FC5 anymore. They still ship autorun, though.)