Solved! KDE Device Notifier Never Activates

Sorry for the Newbie question. I'm an old Gentoo user, but new to Arch.
I want KDE to present me with a device notifier pop-up whenever I insert a USB disk. I don't want to automatically mount the device, but I do want to get a notification so that I can mount if if desired.
Currently, dmesg sees the USB disk, and I can manually mount the USB device, but KDE never seems to know the new device is present.
Do I therefore still need to follow the instructions in the udev wiki about auto-mounting?
(https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Ud … SB_devices)
Is there some other setting that I may have missed?
Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated!
Last edited by NerdWorld (2012-03-25 15:49:59)

NerdWorld wrote:
I agree, it *should* work out of the box (it always did in Gentoo and Debian).
I figured that maybe Arch just required more configuration than those "other leading brands" of Linux. Of course, I'm just not sure what extra configuration I'm missing <sigh>
Welcome to Arch. How are you starting KDE and could you post the daemons from your rc.conf? I'm running KDE and the device notifier does pop up when inserting a USB or any other device. Are you also saying that it doesn't auto-mount also?
Here's my daemons list, FWIW.
DAEMONS=(syslog-ng ntpd dbus networkmanager cupsd avahi-daemon crond kdm)

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