chandra's questions

I am on Kubuntu 12.04.

I have five labelled ext4 partitions on an external removable 1 TB external USB hard drive.

When the drive is plugged in, a box pops up, asking me what I want to do for each partition. If I elect to use the dolphin file manager, it mounts the relevant partition on /media/LABEL where LABEL is the label of that partition. Interestingly, the directories on /media disappear after the external drive is ejected.

To enable automated backups, I want to find out if the mounting can be done automatically without having to click on the popup box to select the dolphin file manager? Essentially, I wish to:

1. automount each partition on USB plugin on /media/LABEL as before where the directories under /media are created automatically on the fly; and

2. On ejection, automatically unmount partitions and remove the directories under /media.

Thanks.

I cannot hear the audible alert on Google Chat even though I have enabled sound in the options. This is so with both Google Chrome and Firefox on Ubuntu Natty. It would be nice to hear a beep of some sort when a typed reply arrives.

Any hints on what further needs to be done is most appreciated.

Thanks.

I was running Unity in Natty when I tried to activate the Rotate and Cube effects. That broke Unity and I had to restore the Unity original configuration by invoking

gsettings reset com.canonical.Unity.Launcher favorites

and

unity --reset

I have now got back Unity and re-tweaked it, but something I did in between now gives me the Launcher on the left side when I choose Ubuntu Classic instead of Ubuntu when I log in. I seem to be in a hybrid state where I can get use of both the traditional (gnome 2?) functionality and also Unity.

How can I restore the Ubuntu Classic interface to its original non-hybrid state?

Thanks.