Archive for November, 2008

Prevent Nautilus from opening when plugging in an external disk

Posted in Linux, Office on November 24th, 2008 by Philipp C. Heckel – Be the first to comment

Nautilus, the standard file manager of Ubuntu, has a feature which automatically opens a new window when an external media such as a USB flash drive or an external disk is plugged in. Generally a great idea, because usually you want to work with the stuff you are connecting to your computer. However, it can get pretty annoying when the external disk or mass media device is partitioned in many parts and Nautilus opens that amount of windows.

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