Open drive desktop icons, on SUSE
 

Recently I aquired a SUSE 7.2 laptop that was not able to recognize and mount my memory stick. So I created an Fstab entry, ceated the proper hotplug entries, and finally made a little icon and wa la everything was fine. Now weeks later when I tried to open my USB memory stick icon, Kedit opens the icon and tells me sorry, "you have specified a directory." Ughhh. The same has happened for the windows (windows/C) share desktop icon on this machine. Not sure what happened, but all my mount icons don't work.

What gives?

was there an update done in the time between then and now? maybe some update ran and redid your fstab?

I thought that might be the case so I checked it again and its same. In fact I cleaned it up a bit since it was a bit sloppy. Interestingly, I logged in as root and everything was fine.

Permissions?

so I checked the permissions of the icons, which the properties indicated they belong to the group I was a member of. The fstab devices themselfs have "user" as an argument as well.

With a regular user logged in, the icon opens with Kedit. Shouldn't Konqueror or some other filemanger utility open?

I tryed setting this icon type o open with Konqueror, but it failed. Not sure if I needed to provide any args, if they were needed.

...And right now I'm feeling kinda STuPiDiCuS, cause this is driving me nuts. I'm also using SuSE distro. 7.2 on this machine. I have another with 8.2 that is fine. Even hotplug works correctly. Their kernel are almost the same. 7.2 with 2.4.20 and the 8.2 with 2.4.64-smp something. So perhaps we could compare some observations on your icons.