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Configuring Devices and Editors

Devices are things like dvdrom drives and usb-pens. Different Linux distros vary enormously in how they deal with these; some, especially recent ones, automatically mount them as soon as they're found; others, especially older versions, do nothing automatically, leaving you to do the work. When 4Pane first runs, it tries to work out which choices your distro makes, and work with them. When it gets it wrong, this is where you can sort things out.

For each attached device 4Pane adds an icon on the righthand side of the toolbar. In automounting distros, this can be clicked to display the device's contents in the current pane; in non-automounting distros, this will also mount the device. For read-write devices like usb-pens, you can also drag files onto the icon to move or copy them to the device.

To the left of the device icons in the toolbar are "editor" ones. Each has a program associated with it e.g. kwrite, gedit; when you click the icon, 4Pane launches that program. More usefully, you can drag a file onto the icon; the program will launch that file.
Though these programs are called "editors" and often are, they don't have to be. You can add other types of program too; Firefox and OpenOffice are suitable examples.

The Configuring Devices and Editors dialog has four buttons, each of which brings up another dialog. They are:


Any changes should take effect immediately, but sometimes (I don't know why) they don't show until you restart 4Pane. This is especially likely if you change icons.