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bhrgunatha

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Registered: 2012-10-28

Posts: 12

Removable media showing up twice and why is there a floppy disk?

0) Settings | Desktop | Icons - Default Icons - Removable devices (OFF)
1) Insert USB stick
2) Settings | Desktop | Icons - Default Icons - Removable devices (ON)

3) Settings | Desktop | Icons - Default Icons - Removable devices (OFF)
One USB icon and one floppy Icon are still there.
4) Right click USB icon - eject media. Physically remove USB stick.
5) Settings | Desktop | Icons - Default Icons - Removable devices (ON)
Now 2 floppies and the USB stick. I can open the USB stick from the icon on the desktop
6) Settings | Desktop | Icons - Default Icons - Removable devices (OFF)
Still a floppy and the USB stick

Even after re-starting the window manager, they're still there.

Questions:
Why is there an icon for a floppy disk as removable media? I don't even have a floppy drive attached to my computer.
Why is my USB drive shown twice and why is the floppy shown twice?
Why won't they disappear when my Desktop setting say don't show removable media?

Last edited by bhrgunatha (2012-11-04 14:02:28)

angstrom

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Registered: 2011-08-13

Posts: 267

Re: Removable media showing up twice and why is there a floppy disk?

May this be related to: http://forum.xfce.org/viewtopic.php?id=7561

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secipolla

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Registered: 2012-01-15

Posts: 393

Re: Removable media showing up twice and why is there a floppy disk?

The floppy thing maybe is something in /etc/fstab?

bhrgunatha

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Registered: 2012-10-28

Posts: 12

Re: Removable media showing up twice and why is there a floppy disk?

May this be related to: http://forum.xfce.org/viewtopic.php?id=7561

That looks very likely. Thanks for the link.

bhrgunatha

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Registered: 2012-10-28

Posts: 12

Re: Removable media showing up twice and why is there a floppy disk?

The floppy thing maybe is something in /etc/fstab?

No, my fstab is very basic:

cat /etc/fstab

# 
# /etc/fstab: static file system information
#
# <file system>        <dir>         <type>    <options>          <dump> <pass>
none                   /dev/pts      devpts    defaults            0      0
none                   /dev/shm      tmpfs     defaults            0      0

/dev/sda5 / ext3 defaults,user_xattr 0 1
/dev/sda6 swap swap defaults 0 0

/dev/sda1 /media/win ntfs-3g defaults 0 0
/dev/disk/by-label/terrabak   /media/terrabak  ext4  defaults,noatime 0 4

bhrgunatha

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Registered: 2012-10-28

Posts: 12

Re: Removable media showing up twice and why is there a floppy disk?

So the bug linked by angstrom WAS the reason for the duplication.
http://forum.xfce.org/viewtopic.php?id=7561
That's been fixed.

So now why is there an icon for a floppy disk when I don't even have a floppy drive attached to my computer?

secipolla

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Registered: 2012-01-15

Posts: 393

Re: Removable media showing up twice and why is there a floppy disk?

That looks like an issue from some underlying component and xfdesktop is just displaying it. So you might have better luck in Arch's forum.

bhrgunatha

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Registered: 2012-10-28

Posts: 12

Re: Removable media showing up twice and why is there a floppy disk?

Thanks, I'll do that.