Prevent Nautilus from opening when plugging in an external disk
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.
In my case, my external disk has four partitions. Every time I plug in the disk, Nautilus opens four windows. Each of them is blinking in the panel, — really annoying!
How to disable it?
Open Nautilus –> Edit –> Preferences –> Media
Now disable Browse media when inserted. That’s it.
I know, it’s pretty easy but it took me a while to figure it out. So I thought I save you guys the effort of searching the Web.
