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  • why does Nemo not AUTOMATICALLY open a new window when i plugin an usb?

dear all,
BUDGIE-desk: why is Nemo file manager not AUTOMATICALLY opening a new window when i plug in an usb-stick or usb-drive?
is anyone else having this behaviour?
how can i force Nemo to open a new window AUTOMATICALLY?

i tried all morning:
i launch nemo.
i plug in an usb.
a new window is not openend. i always have to right-click on the usb and select "open in a new window" manually.

i tried with Nemo standard-settings: these are all set correct!
tried to change all those settings.
tried to change all the "Removable Media" section in the "Budgie Control Center"

tried with different usb sticks and drives.
tried with different usb ports.

i even tried the SOLUS-Budgie ISO installer: and here is the same behaviour too: not opening a window AUTOMATICALLY.

is there somewhere a magic setting that i might have missed?

    BTO as I recall Nautilus never did that so I never expect Nemo too. Caja never did either. Thunar doesn't either. Can't speak for Dolphin.
    I wonder if it's a gnome-control-center or gnome-settings or dconf thing (assuming you exhausted Nemo settings)?

    • BTO replied to this.

        brent
        thanks brent!
        it is strange: i had MANJARO-Mate with CAJA before, and there CAJA always opened the new window automatically when i pluged in the usb.

          so now it's what plugin did Caja (nemo) have in Manjaro that is not in Solus?

          Launching an automatic file window for a plugged in peripheral (usb) has to be such an easy thing so solve....or a system window setting...

          Solus doesn't auto-mount usb drives by default, that behaviour has been used long time ago since nautilus was shipped in solus. Probably is that.

            nolan so some kind of startupmount script may be the only option?

                brent probably not necessarily but it could be done that way, haven't tried.

                  brent
                  i had a look at the dconf settings today.
                  it took me several hours, but i did not see anything particular that would set Nemo to automatically open a new window when plugging in an usb-stick.

                  then i thought: maybe this could rather be a setting SYSTEMD.AUTOMOUNT or whatever with a command line in a terminal ?

                  but thats maybe more a question for the developers of solus.

                      BTO i thought: maybe this could rather be a setting

                      I'm most familiar with how this works in Plasma, as that's what most of the computers here use. When a USB drive is inserted, a notification arrives announcing that fact, and asks the user if he wants to mount it. So the user has the option to ignore it, or to launch Dolphin with that device mounted and accessible. Maybe something like that would work for Budgie, too?

                          WetGeek or to launch Dolphin with that device mounted and accessible. Maybe something like that would work for Budgie, too?

                          I think @BTO is right--what Dolphin does is probably activated by a service.

                          BTO then i thought: maybe this could rather be a setting SYSTEMD.AUTOMOUNT or whatever with a command line in a terminal ?

                          much better sleuthing than mine. to stick a usb stick into a port, then have a file manager window launch very much sounds like like a setting or service i.e. something that can be activated. I agree.

                              Thats why I added the places widget in the panel makes it alittle easier. (On Budgie)

                              BTO,

                              This may be of some help, settings in Budgie Control Centre