DevTray
DevTray shows icons for devices, offering several actions via menus. Supported types of devices are: Volumes (including Floppy Disks, Video DVDs and Audio CDs), Printers and Soundcards.
Due to its modular structure it's easy to add support for other devices.
It needs dbus (>=0.33), its python bindings and HAL (>=0.5.7). These should be included as standard with most modern Linux distributions.
For DevTray >= 0.3 you also needTrayLib.
Some special features only work if additional packages are installed:
- showing artist/title for Audio CDs: CDDB-Py
- built-in volume control for soundcards (based on Ken Hayber's Volume applet): PyAlsaAudio
- showing open windows of a volume in its menu: gnome-python-desktop
- add/remove/enable/disable printer: PyCUPS
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A few more details please
Please could "dbus", "python bindings" and "HAL (>=0.5.7)" be explained in words that a newbie would understand?
Could you then explain how to get and install the said thingys?
PS. Dev tray is one of the major reasons for me installing Linux and ROX. I'm rather keen on getting it to work.
PPS. Please assure me that installing HAL will not cause it to refuse to open the pod bay doors.
LOL
Don't worry, HAL just stands for Hardware Abstraction Layer. It should already be installed by default, iirc.
Devtray
When I try to run Devtray, this is what I get.
Any connection to my previous question?
Any Help Please?
Does anyone have a clue as to the source of my problem?
No HAL
You don't have HAL installed, apparently. DevTray won't work without it.
What distribution are you
What distribution are you using? Most modern Linux distros should include HAL.
Devtray
I'm using a Kubuntu distro (Ubuntu 7.10).
I must be honest and say most of the ROX apps don't work (Appearence, Menu, System, Systray etc.). It's just that this is the one I'm particularly keen to use.
Try hal-device-manager
Try running hal-device-manager (should come with Ubuntu) and see if that can find HAL.
Hal
I installed and ran hal-device-manager. It checked a load of files and ended up with:
Which I guess is not a good thing.
Cannot modify mount options!
Where I can add/change automount options?
I tried edit the /etc/hal/fdi/policy/mountpolicies.fdi file and also run gconf-editor to modify /system/storage/default_options/vfat/mount_options key. Nothing help.
Thanks.