Re: GWorkspace: icons shown on the Desktop even without any plugged device

Hello Riccardo,

On 2025-11-26 10:24:21 +0100 Patrick Cardona <[email protected]> 
wrote:

(...)

As working on the laptop misc release of AGNOSTEP Desktop, I confirm 
the following notes:

> I finally found this got round:
> 
> 1- Removing all lines in the 'mount points for removable media' of 
> 'SystemPreferences/Volumes' tab.
> 2- Using the dockapp wmudmount.
> 
> Now, when a removable disk is mounted with wmudmount, its expected 
> icon is 
> shown on the desktop of GWorkspace. So we can say GWorkspace 
> auto-detects the 
> mounted disk, without the need of the '#E' command.
> 
> Of course, because, the 'mount points for removable media' has been 
> emptied, 
> the ghosted icons issue does not happen if we use '#E' now.
> 
> I know this is not an explanation of the issue, just a work around to 
> avoid 
> it. And maybe it could not work on another system than Pi.

So I noted the same behaviour on my Intel MacBook:

The well working settings:
- Declaring removable medias in /etc/fstab, not in 'SystemPreferences 
 > Volumes': so COMMAND+E is useless, but also it does not produce the 
issue anymore.
- Using wmudmount (itself using udisks2 daemon) to mount (or the mount 
command within Terminal) to mount a plugged media.
- Now GWorkspace shows mounted icons on the desktop as expected.
- You can ever dismount the media with DND on the Recycler or using 
wmudmount or the 'umount' command.

No hurry as I got and confirmed this workaround.

Cheers,
Patrick

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Patrick Cardona - MacBookPro Intel Core i5 - GNU/Linux (Debian 13.1 
amd64)
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