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Stop Rox file manager automatic opening when a desktop drive icon is clicked on to mount it

Posted: Fri Apr 19, 2024 6:29 am
by bigpup

This is provided by MochiMoppel

To stop the automatic opening of a ROX file manager window, when a desktop drive icon is clicked on to mount the drive.

To prevent this it needs a small change in the file /usr/local/pup_event/drive_all

1) Open /usr/local/pup_event/drive_all with a text editor, e.g. geany

2) find line

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defaultfilemanager_x /mnt/$xONEDRVNAME &

In my version it's line 165

3) comment out this line by preceding it with a '#'

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# defaultfilemanager_x /mnt/$xONEDRVNAME &

4) save the file

From now on clicking on the icon of an unmounted drive will just mount it (notice the mount symbol on the icon)
Subsequent clicks will open the drive in Rox showing it's contents.


Re: Stop Rox file manager automatic opening when a desktop drive icon is clicked on to mount it

Posted: Mon Apr 22, 2024 5:17 pm
by simfann

Thank you for this info. Automatic opening of Rox has always annoyed me.