Just installed MX-14 on an old Toshiba laptop. Since I am putting this together for a windows user, I want to make it as painless an experience as possible. I want to make the insertion of a dvd or cd auto launch an appropriate application. By searching the forum I learned of xinitrc-custom, but my installation does not have that file in the home directory. How do I make media insertion initiate the launch of an appropriate application in MX-14?

thunar (the file manager that is the MX default) has a volume manager built in that will direct cd's and dvd's to open an appropriate app. Its in the preferences for thunar.

MX14 uses Thunar. So Howdy and Welcome.

Installation

Thunar Volume Manager can be installed from the package thunar-volman in the official repositories.
Configuration

It can also be configured to execute certain actions when cameras and audio players are connected. After installing the plugin:

Launch Thunar and go to Edit > Preferences
Under the 'Advanced' tab, check 'Enable Volume Management'
Click configure and check the following items:
Mount removable drives when hot-plugged.
Mount removable media when inserted.
Also make desired changes (see the example below)

Here's an example setting for making Amarok play an audio CD.

Where clementine I guess gets subbed for Amorok


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Edit: D.O. is faster than me when it comes to typing. __{{emoticon}}__

MX-14 usually uses Xfce.

To launch custom applications when Xfce starts up,
click the Applications Menu - Settings - Settings Manager
and then choose the"Session and Startup" option and click the tab"Application Autostart".

Thank you all for your responses. Sorry that it took me a while to respond to them, but I've been tied up with other matters. I looked into Thumar preferences, and found your instructions easy to follow, but the cds and dvds still don't launch. I suspect that it may be because of the command string I have entered after selecting"configure" when enabling volume managment.

For audio CDs I entered the command string clementine --cdplay %d
I picked that up from the amarok example in the doc at
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I also tried /usr/bin/clementine --cdplay %d
Tried logging out and back in, but clementine still does not launch after inserting an audio cd.

I could use some more suggestions, if you have any ideas of where this process is going wrong.

UPDATE: GOT IT! used the command vlc dvd://
Now I need to work on clementine __{{emoticon}}__

I'm not sure that clementine can autoplay a cd. VLC can though.

vlc cdda:///dev/cdrom

Cool, that will help. Thanks.

fyi: VLC has a playlist view as well and it will pull the track info from the net. On my system, with a Bon Jovi album, clementine got the track info in the wrong order but vlc's was correct.