HOWTO: Make KDE only automount NOT autoexecute

**GoldBuggie** · November 15th, 2005

If you are troubled by the autoexecution of konqueror or kaffeine whenever you insert a CD or USB-memorystick etc and you would like things to automount but not execute a software then this is the thing for you.

The software that handles automount and all these execution is ivman. A nice litte utility but not configured to my likings. Here is how to make it ONLY automount.

Code:

 sudo kate /etc/ivman/IvmConfigActions.xml

the only thing that should be in that file is this:

Code:

 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
 <ivm:ActionsConfig version="0.2" xmlns:ivm="http://www.eikke.com/ivm">
      <!-- try to mount any mountable volume at all -->
      <ivm:Match name="ivm.mountable" value="true">
          <ivm:Option name="mount" value="true" />
      </ivm:Match>

 </ivm:ActionsConfig>

Everything else in that file are either for execution or popup signals when a printer is detected. If you do not want to remove everything is that file just comment everything except the above section.

To comment out things in a .xml file just wrap it with

Code:

<!-- ...CODE... -->

**Divan Santana** · January 18th, 2006

Perhaps just apt-get remove ivman

This removes the program that automounts stuff as kde3.5 has a built in handler that does a nicer job of it...

**GoldBuggie** · January 18th, 2006

That is another choice but I do find ivman to be a nice tool which you can configure some individual behaviour and since kubuntu us configured for ivman I don't think removing it is the ideal behaviour. But to each his own.

**DrinkYourOvaltine** · January 19th, 2006

Thanks for this! - I have been getting more and more frustrated with both konqueror and kscd opening when I put a cd in.

(That kscd check-box to disable autoplay is a filthy lie!)

**gingermark** · April 22nd, 2006

Code:

 sudo kate /etc/ivman/IvmConfigActions.xml

really should be

Code:

kdesu kate /etc/ivman/IvmConfigActions.xml

From https://wiki.kubuntu.org/RootSudo:

NEVER use sudo to start graphical programs. You should always use gksudo or kdesu to run such programs, otherwise new login attempts may fail.

**tsb** · May 13th, 2006

Originally Posted by gingermark

Code:

 sudo kate /etc/ivman/IvmConfigActions.xml

really should be

Code:

kdesu kate /etc/ivman/IvmConfigActions.xml

From https://wiki.kubuntu.org/RootSudo:

Thanks. I always wondered why kate always crashed when I tried sudo. On reboot the password prompt would come up but open a blank page. Now it works perfectly.

Thanks to the OP for help with that launching crap.

**Jucato** · July 12th, 2006

Question: Doesn't System Settings > Hardware > Storage Media have settings for what to do when a certain media is inserted? Maybe it could be set to "Do Nothing"?