How do I turn off Shotwell autostart?
Shotwell does not play nice with my Kodak Easyshare; or rather my Kodak Easyshare does not play nice with Linux. I finally found some workarounds to get photos transferred to my computer, but not with Shotwell (Shotwell was part of the problem). At one time I thought I found where I could choose to not let Shotwell automatically start when I mounted the camera or SD card reader. I cannot find this any more; it's not under Shotwell preferences, nor Preferred Applications. Does anyone know how I can turn off Shotwell autostart?
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d2btoo, thanks for the response. Both links gave me a start. My menus are slightly different, but I can get to "Removable Drives and Media." However, nothing addresses Shotwell, nor any photo management tool. Curious, yes?
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Yeah, that's the trouble... menus are all different across different versions and DE's.
For example, I'm at the moment in my desktop which runs old Lucid, so I can't check for now for the "new menus of current versions". Anyway if it helps, I think you need to make sure to double check the setting which controls what happens when you put removable media -- either make it ask you or completely disable it.
here is a screen shot of it (but this is old Lucid way :p )
http://i.imm.io/1fAZg.png
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Lucid was one of my favorites. Now, I don't even have a media tab!
I've unchecked "browse removable media when inserted" under storage in removable drives and media, but that doesn't effect Shotwell's behavior. Under camera, the only option is "import digital photographs when connected," but that's not even checked. Seems like somebody didn't realize not everyone would want Shotwell!
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From the Shotwell help files
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Shotwell may also be executed automatically when a camera is plugged in to your computer. To check that your system is set up to run Shotwell when a camera is detected, go to Edit ▸ Preferences in any Nautilus (file browser) window and choose the Media tab. You'll see a dropdown box entitled Photos: which lets you choose Shotwell as your photo handling application.
I'm running Xfce on Ubuntu but can still access Nautilus. In Ubuntu 12.04, Nautilus no longer has a media tab. The help file is outdated.
So where has photo handling preferences been moved to????
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Does this thread help:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1976683
In xfce you find this also under Settings | Settings Manager | Removable Drives and Media
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Please see here http://askubuntu.com/questions/22313...ow-do-i-use-it and here http://askubuntu.com/questions/69606...-usb-auto-play (not the chosen answer but the answer below it)
So basically check out if you find any interesting property regarding shotwell with the dconf and gsettings, if not then try to disable autorun altogether!
oops! didn't see Azdour's post! Please disregard this post.
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@ Azdour, thanks. I've found Removable Drives and Media, but there are no options to address this. I've unchecked everything except to mount removable media when inserted. Everything else is disabled.
@ d2btoo, I will check those out! I never think to look at Ask Ubuntu, unless it comes up in a search. However, this may put me on the right track.
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@d2btoo - you didn't need to edit out your post :) my solution did not work so maybe yours will. that's why sometimes posting various solutions helps the OP