When I attach a USB drive (or any external drive) an icon appears in the Launcher.  Is there a way to prevent the USB icon from showing in Launcher?  I know it is possible to right-click and select Unlock from Launcher, but this will not prevent it appearing again. I'm not sure, but probably because this will just blacklist the uuid, which might be different next time one connects the USB device.  So is there a way to prevent any drive or maybe any USB device from appearing in launcher?
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If I connect an external device (such as a USB stick or android smartphone) it will automatically open in nautilus and get a corresponding icon locked to unity launcher. Is there any way to prevent this?  I'm using Ubuntu 14.04
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can anyone tell me the name of the file which contains the default icons list for Unity launcher?  I am assuming it will be a .conf file.
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Just discovered I have gotten a FOUND.000 folder on my usb drive. I guess from running chkdsk once. It has three files in it:   FILE0000.CHK FILE0001.CHK FILE0002.CHK   What exactly can I do with these files? What are my options? Are they lost files? Are they garbage? Can I use them for anything at all? Or will I just have to delete them?
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I unlocked the 'Files' button for the Ubuntu file manager from the unity launcher and I cannot get it back.   When I run the file manager from the dash, the icon does not appear on the launcher like it does for all other applications while they are running. I wanted to have an empty launcher when no applications are running, and just have the icons of those I am actively using there.  Any idea why I don't see it in the launcher when its running or how to lock it back?
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On Windows, is there any way to make some USB ports to be charge-only? I do not want to alter the settings of the devices; I want to change the settings of the USB ports on Windows, so that any device I connect to those ports will be only charged.  Is this possible?
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I'm curious how USB device recognition works in Windows. I imagine it's something like this:   When you plug in a device, it tells Windows "here's my device ID to tell you what I am" Windows looks to see if any drivers have been installed that match that device ID. The driver probably tells Windows what the device should be called - like "BlackBerry Curve" or "Canon Printer" If so, it somehow associates that device with that driver Otherwise, it looks for a matching driver online (if you let it)   Am I right? If so, that still leaves some questions.   When you install drivers, where do they go? Are they files in a folder, or do they get added to the registry? What is Windows doing when it first recognizes the device, thinks, and finally says "your new device is installed and ready to use?" Where does Windows look for missing drivers? Is it in their own database? Do device manufacturers submit drivers to Microsoft for inclusion there?   Can anybody explain how this process really works? Also, do other OSes do this differently?
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I am learning about linux security and struggling to understand why a USB stick with a character device on it is potentially dangerous.  If I have a USB stick with a bash executable that has setuid root on it, the danger is obvious: Anybody with such a USB stick can gain root privileges on my computer if I have an entry like   /dev/sdb1 /media/usbstick auto defaults 0 0   in my /etc/fstab because defaults includes suid.  But what about character devices? How can I use a character device to gain root privileges or break stuff if a USB stick with a character device on it gets mounted with dev or defaults?
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Is it possible to 'enclose' more than one application in a single Unity icon/button? In order to keep under control the number of buttons on launcher, it will be very useful to me to store some applications of the same type (e.g. small accessory applications like take screenshot or web application etc. ) in a single button as that is possible with the xfce panel...
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A couple of days ago I was attempting to add an application to the unity launcher from the unity dash and instead of adding the app it created an "empty icon"(blank space) in the launcher there is no way to remove it right clicking produces nothing, hovering over the "icon" does not produce a tool tip, and clicking it does not open an application.  The only thing I can do with it is move it around in the stack of apps in the launcher.    Anyone know how to fix this?
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I'm experiencing this behaviour on 2 separated machines (in a virtualbox vm and physically installed on another laptop):  Sometimes after I start the Files Gnome application - its corresponding button disappears from the Unity Launcher couple seconds after it's started. So if I minimize the application - I have no chance to close the application rather than killing its process with kill.  That's how it looks like:    Has anyone else experienced it? Is it a bug or some tricky configuration option?  If it's a bug - where should I report it?  PS: I've filed a bug for that
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Since I removed the USBs drive letter for the raw partition per the instructions , Windows 7s "Safely Remove Hardware..." taskbar icon no longer detects my USB. So, how should I safely remove my USB?  There doesn't seem to be anything on this problem in the TrueCrypt .
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I'd like to figure out how to hide the icons of the status bar that would appear in the left. Is there a way to control that? Some apps such as Weather.com don't have the option to hide that icon from the status bar.
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Ever since I got my Nexus 5, I've notice that apps sometimes disappear from the launcher for no reason. This seems to correspond to that app being updated, although it doesn't always happen to every app on every update. I've seem some questions about icons disappearing due to moving them onto an SD card, but I don't have one of those so that's not it.  The apps are still installed and show up in Settings &gt; Apps or in the alphabetized pages one gets by pressing the ::: icon. Some of the apps this has happened to include Facebook, Android IRC, TransitTimes+, QuickPic, and Minecraft — but it's not just limited to those, and it doesn't seem to happen to those with every update.   I'm not using any special launcher or anything — just the stock one that comes with KitKat 4.4 on the Nexus 5. (Updated to 4.4.2)  What's going on and how can I fix it?
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When right clicking an icon on the taskbar Windows displays a small menu. This always contains a button to pin/unpin the application on the taskbar.    I frequently use this menu to open new windows of applications and often accidentally hit the pin/unpin button. Since I do not frequently change the applications which are pinned to my taskbar I do not really need these buttons to be there all the time.  Is there a way to hide these buttons so that I can no longer hit them by accident?
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I use sometimes some Linux distros, e.g. Ubuntu, and I like the feature they have to add a desktop shortcut to every removable device that is plugged in on desktop - for example, when a DVD is inserted, a new icon for that appears on desktop, and with that I can access, eject etc.  I would like to have the same feature for Windows - specifically for Windows XP Professional SP3, but it is interesting to know the solution for other Windows versions...  Any help?  PS1: I would like to have "dynamic shortcuts", i.e, shortcutes that appears on desktop when the removable device is inserted and that disappears when it is removed.  PS2: I'm talking about CD/DVD media and massive storage devices mainly.
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Using Ubuntu 11.10, how do I format an external or USB drive? I don't find an option to 'format' when I right click. In the new version, the drives don't come up on the desktop, but instead come on the Launcher.
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How can I find the file system type of USB drive without using computer? Drive is attached to Android phone and I can see the files in it. I want to know if it is extFAT etc.