I've just installed Jessie with Mate DE to a new machine.
On previous installs on other machines, a search icon was present on Synaptic's menu bar. It is not there now, what have I done differently?
My machine is a laptop whose CD eject button is small and in an awkward location. Is there anyway to have Synaptic eject rather than unmount the CD when it has finished with it? [As a side note, I have noticed that some USB flash drives have a "safe remove" option, others have only an "eject" option. I would prefer USB flash drives to only have an unmount option. Possible?]
As an alternative to the above, is there any way to have Synaptic use an external USB connected drive rather than the internal CD? The external drive is moderately faster and has a convent eject button.
TIA
