[Thunar-dev] Unmount CD by pressing eject button on device

Benedikt Meurer benedikt.meurer at unix-ag.uni-siegen.de
Mon Jan 15 15:26:31 CET 2007


Harold Aling wrote:
> Dear list,
> 
> Until recently I was able to eject CDs/DVDs by pressing the physical
> button on the device itself. It now seems that the only way to eject is
> by rightclicking the (mounted)device icon and selecting "Eject Volume".
> 
> My bad or buggy?

HAL emits a signal when the Eject button is pressed, but I didn't care
to check so far, and so Thunar never used that. Maybe you had some other
software installed that was listening for this HAL signal?

> -H-

Benedikt



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