What happened to gnome mount options?

Xamindar

I used to be able to modify the automount options of a removable drive by right clicking on it (in nautilus), going to properties, then editing the mount options line. What the heck happened to that? I needed to add mount options to mount in utf8 because it doesn't have that by default. Why does it seem that every few days I find a new thing that has been removed from gnome? I wish someone would fork gnome into an alternative DE made for people who want to actually USE thier computers. Ok, I'll stop ranting.

So is there a new location for this info to be modified? Did they move it somewhere else or did they remove it completely (which seems to happan a lot in gnome)?

sugar · Posted: Sat May 24, 2008 9:38 am Post subject:

there's a 'volume' tab in the properties dialog that has what you want.
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Xamindar · Posted: Sat May 24, 2008 9:47 am Post subject:

sugar · Posted: Sat May 24, 2008 9:50 am Post subject:

PeterH · n00b Joined: 09 Nov 2005 Posts: 31

Make sure you emerge gnome-base/gnome-mount with the 'gnome' USE flag enabled. Without that the nautilus extension responsible for this functionality isn't installed.

Xamindar · Posted: Sat May 24, 2008 8:43 pm Post subject:

sugar · Posted: Sat May 24, 2008 11:40 pm Post subject:

I see that nautilus now handles automounting natively instead of gnome-volume-manager, and the nautilus wiki says that the properties pages will be reworked.
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Xamindar · Posted: Sun May 25, 2008 3:09 am Post subject:

PeterH · n00b Joined: 09 Nov 2005 Posts: 31

If you are using nautilus-2.22.x then the problem is probably this.

Nautilus changed it's extension directory with the 2.22.x releases. Due to the move from gnome-vfs to gvfs.
All gnome-mount versions lower than 0.8 installs the extension in /usr/lib/nautilus/extensions-1.0. But nautilus is looking in /usr/lib/nautilus/extensions-2.0

gnome-mount-0.8 is not available in portage so you will have to put an ebuild in an overlay.

fiolj · Posted: Mon Jun 09, 2008 6:36 pm Post subject: Now it is working for me

I had the same problem with one computer while had not problem on other. I finally solved doing a downgrade of both nautilus and gnome-volume-manager.

Working:
gnome-base/gnome-volume-manager-2.22.1
gnome-base/nautilus-2.22.2

NOT working:
gnome-base/gnome-volume-manager-2.22.5
gnome-base/nautilus-2.22.3

I did not change one at a time but those are the results i found. Hope it helps.

uberGeekxor

I just came across the same nuisance today.

In gconf there is a key: "/apps/nautilus/preferences/media_automount"
Just make sure it is set false

If you don't have gconf-editor installed, then:

`gconftool-2 --type bool --set /apps/nautilus/preferences/media_automount "false"`

should do the trick.

Yeah I'm not sure why they don't seem to have that option in the nautilus preferences GUI any more. It is a shame to have to resort to gconf, but it seems to get the job done.