On Mon, Jun 26, 2023 at 07:15:52PM -0400, songbird wrote: > to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > ... > > Yikes. Those gnomies do love complexity. I know why our ways parted > > long ago. > > yes, among the many other assumptions. i'm afraid though > that some of these things creep into MATE in time. :(
That's natural. They have to follow up with the Gtk toolkit (not enough maintainer oomph to make their own, I guess). > > You might try disabling gvfs-gphoto2-volume-monitor.service and see > > what changes (possibly you can't access the camera at all, but who > > knows). > > disabling or masking. i do that along with a few other > things that i don't use or care about. > > > > In any case put pebbles along the way so you can find your way back. > > > > Perhaps someone with more clue chimes in. > > > > Me? I just tell the camera to present a file system, mount it (yes, > > manually) on /mnt and do a rsync. It's so much easier than all this > > ritual dances that it's not even funny. > > yes. someone else downthread says to remove the gphoto2 > package but that is useful, i just don't want it automatically > engaged until i specifically ask for it. Worth a try, I guess. But I have no practical experience with that stuff anyway, so I'll better shut up now :-) Cheers -- t
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