[NTLUG:Discuss] KioEXEC

[Chris Cox]

Leroy Tennison wrote:
> This is just part of my saga in attempting to find a CD player which
> allows selecting tracks to play without ripping them.  As I mentioned in
> another post I found Grip partially met my requirements.  So I went into
> KDE Control Center, selected Peripherals followed by "Storage Media",
> filtered on "Audio CD" and Added Grip as an entry in Notifications.  I
> also marked it as the "Auto Action" using "Toggle As Auto Action" 
> thinking that would start Grip whenever I inserted an Audio CD.
> 
> What I got instead was a couple of dialogs/messages: "Examining file
> progress", "Copying file(s) ..." then "Error - KioEXEC (new line) The
> file of folder / does not exist" (yea, right, root doesn't exist but my
> OS seems just fine except for this).  Grip doesn't launch.  Now "Toggle 
> As Auto Action" is grayed out permanently (checked after reboot and 
> before loading any removable media).
> 
> Googled for KioEXEC, the documentation is terse and other hits weren't
> much help.
> 
> 
> Anyone know anything about this?  Any pointers would be much appreciated.

I just use Amarok.  I use openSUSE 11.0.  In my case, I just insert
the CD (pops up a selection for how to open the CD... I like that because
sometimes I DO want to rip, etc), then once the play list is populated
(initially with all songs), I just remove the entries I don't want.
Works for me.