Automatic mount/unmount CDs

[Paul M. Bucalo]

On Saturday 25 October 2003 06:43 am, Shahar Weiss graced me with:
> Olivier Fourdan wrote:
> >Actually, it's not the task of the user interface, but rather
> > automount from the kernel.
> >
> >Cheers,
> >Olivier.
> >
> >On Sat, 2003-10-25 at 12:19, Moritz Heiber wrote:
> >>On Sat, 25 Oct 2003 12:08:00 +0200
> >>
> >>Shahar Weiss <sweiss3 at gawab.com> wrote:
> >>>Hello. I was wondering, is it possible to make XFCE4
> >>> mount/unmount a CD automatically?
> >>
> >>xfmountdev4 does that task.
> >>
> >>>Shahar.
> >>
> >>Bye,
> >>
> >>Moritz
>
> I searched for xfmountdev4 and from the short decription there I'm
> not sure if that's what I need. What I meant was a way to
> automatically mount a CD when inserting it to the drive and
> automatically unmount it as I press the eject button.
>
> Or maybe I misunderstood myself?
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Shahar.

What distro are you using? Red Hat (and maybe some others) use 
'autofs' to do just that. As soon as you put in a CD its sensed and 
is now mounted. The same with removal. Mandrake uses 'supermount', 
same principle. Are you hoping to see an icon on the Desktop that 
dynamically changes its 'looks' to show when a CD is mounted or not? 
As Olivier stated, this is a function of the way you have your O/S 
setup to deal with ROM's. If your CD's are not automounting outside 
of XFce, you should manage that feat in the O/S, not XFce. 

Paul