Autoplaying audio cd with KSCD

[ShogunMaster]

When I insert an audio cd KSCD pops open and wants to play it. I don't want KSCD to open. I have unchecked the box from within the properties to autoplay cds on insert.

Is there somewhere else I need to change this?

[Bokkenka]

OK, little tip... Always push the "Submit Reply" button when done.

The option in KSCD is whether it will start playing as soon as it opens, not whether it will open.

In your home directory, go to ~/.kde/Autostart/ . There is an Autorun link. It controls what happens when a CD is inserted. If you pull it out of the directory, it won't automatically run when you start X.

Or, you could edit it. It starts as...

/usr/bin/autorun -l --interval=1000 --cdplayer=/usr/bin/kscd

You should be able to change the default player, if you want. You'll prob'ly have to restart X for the changes to take effect. Or, kill the autorun process and restart the new one.

[ShogunMaster]

Thanks Bokkenka for your post. I will try that.

Was your little tip directed at me? If so, I am afraid that I don't understand.

[TPFH]

Actually, it is probably KDE's fault, but whoever got the idea to enable autostart by default, to say nothing about not making it obvious how to disable it, should die a slow painful death.

(This is the sort of BS that I expect from Microsft, not linux.)

anyway.....

It was auto-starting KsCD automatically on startup, I unchecked the option that I thought was causing it to autostart, but that didnṫ help. It would just re-enable itself or something the next time I inserted a CD.

So I thought to myself, OK, I donṫ play audio CDs on my computer anyway (just rip them in grip) so Iĺl just uninstall KsCD entirely. Now it is autostart-ing with gnome-cd, and I cannot uninstall gnome-cd.

I did some searching and found someone suggesting I run gnome-cd-properties, but that program is not available.

I tried looking in .kde/Autostart and it has two files in it:

.alignment-icons .directory


.alignment-icons is an empty file.

.directory has a bunch of language stuff in it.
It does have one line in it that says:


Name=Autostart

Should I comment that line out or what?