Bug 11007

Summary:	Alpha 1 MATE opens multiple file manager windows when external HD added
Product:	Mageia	Reporter:	Carolyn Rowse <cmrisolde>
Component:	RPM Packages	Assignee:	William Murphy <warrendiogenese>
Status:	RESOLVED WONTFIX	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	Normal	CC:	tarakbumba, warrendiogenese
Version:	Cauldron	Keywords:	Triaged
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	i586
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:	4alpha1
Source RPM:	mate-?	CVE:
Status comment:

Description Carolyn Rowse 2013-08-15 14:37:39 CEST

Description of problem:

In alpha 1 using MATE desktop, when I plugged in a USB external hard drive three additional file manager windows were opened instead of just one.  This didn't happen with KDE.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):


How reproducible:


Steps to Reproduce:
1. Log into MATE desktop
2. Plug in a USB hard drive
3.


Reproducible: 

Steps to Reproduce:

Carolyn Rowse 2013-08-15 21:48:34 CEST

Whiteboard: (none) => 4alpha1

Manuel Hiebel 2013-08-17 17:04:27 CEST

Keywords: (none) => Triaged
CC: (none) => fcs, tarakbumba
Assignee: bugsquad => pierre-malo.denielou
Source RPM: (none) => mate-?

William Murphy 2013-08-17 21:16:14 CEST

Assignee: pierre-malo.denielou => warrendiogenese

Comment 1 William Murphy 2013-08-18 14:21:06 CEST

Are there 3 partitions on the device by chance? 

If there are, the default is to open an instance of caja for each of partition found on the device. KDE handles it differently. You can turn off this behaviour with dconf-editor or gsettings. 

The command to turn off auto-lanching of caja for new media using gsettings is:

gsettings set org.mate.media-handling automount-open false

or using dconf-editor, go to org->mate->desktop->media-handling and uncheck automount-open.

The media icons should still show up on the desktop, unless that's turned off. The default is to show them.

A similar issue has recently been reported upstream about mulitple instances of caja being launched at startup, but I haven't been able to reproduce it yet.

Status: NEW => ASSIGNED

Comment 2 Carolyn Rowse 2013-08-19 14:45:46 CEST

Yes, there are three partitions on that drive.  I'll try what you suggested.  In fact, I've also noticed now that my Mageia 2 LXDE installation brings up a window three times asking me if I want to open it in the file manager, is there something similar I can do about that?

Thank you for your help.

Carolyn

Comment 3 William Murphy 2013-08-19 16:11:10 CEST

For LXDE you can turn off Mount Helper using lxsession-edit. That should stop it from opening a file manager for each partition. The partitions should still automount and it should give you the option to open file managers for each.

Comment 4 Atilla ÖNTAŞ 2013-10-24 10:29:31 CEST

(In reply to Carolyn Rowse from comment #2)
As William explained; this is default behaviour for caja and by modifying settings you will not enable auto-open connected media. Also, this behaviour is choice of upstream. Unless they change their mind. So, i will not change this behaviour. I' ll close this bug report as wontfix.

Comment 5 Atilla ÖNTAŞ 2013-10-24 10:32:43 CEST

(In reply to William Murphy from comment #1)
>A similar issue has recently been reported upstream about mulitple instances of caja being launched at startup, but I haven't been able to reproduce it yet.<

This issue is a known issue and i have reproduced it many times. However there is no *real* fix for this from upstream yet. See: https://github.com/mate-desktop/caja/issues/100

Status: ASSIGNED => RESOLVED
Resolution: (none) => WONTFIX