I have an external USB drive that has a FAT filesystem on it. When I plug it in the Device Action plasmoid pops up and I can mount it. It does not mount the FAT system "execute", it only allows read/write, how would I set it so that when the plasmoid mounts it, I can execute a file?

What file controls this plasmoid?

The operating system I have problems with is Linux Mint.

I believe that I would set something in "Device Actions" - "System Settings" but the options are not intuitive so could documentation that explains how to set the options.

TIA
Scott

Setting the execute bits and the like is something that is done lower in the stack, I believe. However I've never had the occasion to change the default mount options.

To answer your question, the device notifier uses Solid, which in turns uses udisks (4.7 onwards) or HAL (up to 4.6) to mount / unmount.

einar wrote:Setting the execute bits and the like is something that is done lower in the stack, I believe. However I've never had the occasion to change the default mount options.

To answer your question, the device notifier uses Solid, which in turns uses udisks (4.7 onwards) or HAL (up to 4.6) to mount / unmount.

Thanks for the information, I am not familiar with udisks. At one time I was looking into HAL, thought I was getting a handle on understanding that and then.....

The "occasion" I have to set execute on my USB drive is that I have a Java program that runs on both Windows and Linux. Windows I have a batch file that executes the program. Linux I found will not execute my "runjava.desktop" in Mint, it executes on my Kubuntu machine.

In addition there would be "occasion" to change such settings if one has a questionable USB drive that they do not want to allow files on the device to execute.

It would help to provide a link to pages of authority that discuss how to use Solid "udisks". Found this http://solid.kde.org/ and http://techbase.kde.org/Development/Tutorials/Solid/Introduction which is not too helpful.

Thanks again

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