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Re: No floppy disk icon on 4.8?

dummy@example.com (tcat) — Fri, 27 Apr 2012 18:10:06 +0000

Yes you can.

In Thunar you may create a custom action that appears in the menu when right clicked on the floppy icon.

Name it, say, Mount Floppy, or just Mount
As for the command it depends, if you use udisks, you can then type udisks --mount /dev/fd0
I dont use udisks nor gvs, so I can simply fill in here mount /media/floppy

In Apperanece Conditions tab
You only tick Other Files and in File Pattern you type Floppy.desktop

You need to logout / login again for the change to take effect

This way I also implemented a simple Trash function, it is tied to my Trash.desktop file

Re: No floppy disk icon on 4.8?

dummy@example.com (the98) — Thu, 19 Apr 2012 02:26:10 +0000

Thank you. I know you can do that, but you can't unmount floppy or mount them doing that (I think!!)

Re: No floppy disk icon on 4.8?

dummy@example.com (tcat) — Fri, 13 Apr 2012 20:17:23 +0000

On my system I created these dektop files
$ ls Desktop/
CD-ROM.desktop Computer.desktop Floppy.desktop USB.desktop

$ cat Desktop/Floppy.desktop
[Desktop Entry]
Version=1.0
Type=Link
Name=Floppy
Comment=
Icon=media-floppy
URL=/media/floppy
GenericName=

You can create a desktop entry by right clicking the mouse, and selecting create URL link. As the URL you specify your prefered mount point, e.g. /media/floppy. You may also choose a custom icon as I did.

No floppy disk icon on 4.8?

dummy@example.com (the98) — Tue, 09 Aug 2011 00:06:32 +0000

Hi! I'm a bit nostalgic and I've noticed that now with 4.8 you don't get the floppy drive icon on the desktop. Is it just me or was this feature removed considering that now no one uses floppy disk?

Regards.