How can I remove the "Media files" banners in Nautilus?

[Pedro I. Sanchez]

On 12-05-19 03:09 PM, Bob Jonkman wrote:
> Whenever I plug my Android into my laptop I get two dialogue boxes 
> "This drive contains pictures/music, do you want to open 
> Shotwell/Rhythmbox?".   Then when I open Nautilus there are two 
> banners across the top of the file list that read "Open Shotwell Photo 
> Manager; the media contains digital photos" and "Open Rhythmbox Music 
> Player; these files are on a digital music player".
>
> I can get rid of the initial dialogue boxes.  But how do I get rid of 
> the two banners across Nautilus?  There are no "Close" buttons, and I 
> have found nothing in the menus.  Those banners just take up far too 
> much vertical screen space, so I want them gone.
>
> --Bob.
>
Hi Bob,

If you get messages about Shotwell and Rhytmbox when you connect your 
phone to your laptop most likely the phone is using the PTP protocol. I 
believe is probably not what you want since file transfers in this mode 
have a number of limitations.

Anyway, I have a Galaxy Nexus running Android ICS. To get it connected 
to my PC at home, running Ubuntu 12.04, I had to do two things:

1. On the phone, ensure that the USB port is using MTP instead of PTP 
(Settings > Storage > USB computer connection (click the menu item) > MTP.

2. On my PC:

     sudo apt-get install mtpfs

3. (Optional) On my PC:

     sudo apt-get install  gmtp mtp-tools

Now upon connecting my phone Nautilus opens a regular file Window on it 
and I can copy and paste files both ways as needed.

I hope this helps.

-- 
Pedro