Disable auto-opening nautilus window after auto-mount

Question

Every time I plug a USB stick in, nautilus opens a new window with the contents of the drive. I would like to disable this auto-opening of the nautilus window, but I would like the actual auto-mount to keep working. Is this possible?

score 303 · Answer 1 · edited Mar 03 '17 at 08:26

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The simplest option is to open a terminal with Ctrl+Alt+T, and type:

gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.media-handling automount-open false

edited Mar 03 '17 at 08:26

Zanna

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answered Sep 21 '12 at 23:22

ish

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This should be the answer. – Nicolay Doytchev Nov 05 '14 at 21:03
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How shall I know which settings can be changed using gsettings set ? can you provide any documentation or list ? – MAKZ Feb 20 '15 at 13:26
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This doesn't work in Gnome-Shell. It still pops-up that notification asking to "Open with Files" or "Eject" or "Open with music player", etc. – Cerin May 05 '15 at 14:47
This didn't work for me on 15.04 with Unity. The graphical dconf solution did. – fouric May 14 '15 at 03:08
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Confirmed on 16.04. For an Android developer, this is really a relief! – Stephan Henningsen Sep 15 '16 at 10:27
Didn't work on an earlier Ubuntu for me (15.10 or 16.04 probably) but did now work on 16.10. – Stoffe Oct 07 '16 at 13:01
If run this command via sudo, it may not work, Why? – Honghe.Wu Apr 18 '17 at 02:23
Worked on 16.04 perfectly, Thanks man, @StephanHenningsen really :D – Shahzain ali Sep 26 '17 at 05:39
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On Linux Mint this was gsettings set org.cinnamon.desktop.media-handling automount-open false for me. So cinnamon instead of gnome. Presumably this would have to changed also if you use Mate instead. Etc etc ... – 0xC0000022L Nov 27 '17 at 23:17
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List all data from gsettings with descriptions: gsettings list-recursively | while read path name value; do echo "$path.$name=$value"; gsettings describe "$path" "$name"; echo; done – Mikko Rantalainen Jun 13 '19 at 14:48

score 80 · Accepted Answer · answered Sep 21 '12 at 23:03

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Turns out, it is. You will need dconf-editor tool, which can be installed by with sudo apt-get install dconf-tools. Run dconf-editor in your terminal. Browse to org -> gnome -> desktop - media-handling. Uncheck automount-open.

answered Sep 21 '12 at 23:03

Anton Cherkashyn

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On Ubuntu 14.10, you just need to install "dconf Editor" (dconf-editor). Run it once it's been added to your Launcher. Then do the same thing. – colan Jan 03 '15 at 01:48

score 21 · Answer 3 · answered Dec 13 '14 at 14:36

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The setting corresponding to izx's to disable automatically launching nemo in the cinnamon desktop is:

gsettings set org.cinnamon.desktop.media-handling automount-open false

answered Dec 13 '14 at 14:36

kynan

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score 1 · Answer 4 · edited Jun 04 '20 at 15:58

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For MATE Desktop Environment, which uses the Caja file manager:

gsettings set org.mate.media-handling automount-open false

or use Caja File Management Preferences (caja-file-management-properties) - on Media tab uncheck Browse media when inserted checkbox.

Not for Gnome or Cinnamon desktop environments, however MATE/Caja is a close relative.

edited Jun 04 '20 at 15:58

N0rbert

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Tymek

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score -1 · Answer 5 · edited Nov 29 '17 at 11:48

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Using GUI in debian gnome desktop:

Open dconf-editor then go to org -> gnome -> desktop - media-handling. There uncheck automount.

edited Nov 29 '17 at 11:48

Marc Vanhoomissen

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answered Nov 29 '17 at 11:34

SHIVA

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This will disable auto-mounting altogether. OP only wants do disable the pop-up windows after auto-mount. -1 – David Foerster Nov 29 '17 at 11:59
yes, it disables the auto-mounting also. my answer is only for disabling pop-up window. – SHIVA Nov 29 '17 at 12:55
No, it's not. Please read the description of the Dconf key org.gnome.desktop.media-handling.automount (“If set to true, then Nautilus will automatically mount media such as user-visible hard disks and removable media on start-up and media insertion.”) as opposed to .automount-open (“If set to true, then Nautilus will automatically open a folder when media is automounted.”). – David Foerster Nov 29 '17 at 15:33

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