Plugging in a usb drive results in 4 windows coming up.

as you can see i have a bit of a problem. When i stick a usb <anything> it will pop up 4 windows. What is up with that?

abhidg wrote:well since he's using thunar, that would be thunar-volman; but I've never seen thunar volman opening four windows before. you could check that only one instance of thunar is running; or run thunar in daemon mode like I do in my .xinitrc using "Thunar --daemon &"
how do I run it in daemon mode? Is it like this?
#!/bin/sh
# ~/.xinitrc
# Executed by startx (run your window manager from here)
numlockx &
Thunar --daemon &
# exec startkde
# exec startxfce4
# exec icewm
# exec blackbox
# exec fluxbox
exec xfce4-session
Last edited by theringmaster (2007-09-29 16:56:06)

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