connecting to Kindle Fire HD

[Gene Czarcinski]

I had a difficult time connecting to my kindle fire HD and really could 
not find much information on how to do it so when I did figure it out 
(or, rather when the magic did happen), I thought I would put something 
out and save others some time.

1.  Update to Fedora 19 ... you need libmtp and gvfs-mtp (and, of 
course, the whole set of gvfs packages that goes with running gvfs).  
There is no gvfs-mtp for Fedora 18 which was part of my original problem.

2. I have nautilus managing my desktop and "Show mounted volumes" 
explicitly turned on.

3.  After connecting my kindle, I had to logoff and logon again [so that 
"puff" the magic could happen]  for the kindle to be recognized and 
mounted.

That is nice.  Now if only the kindle fire HD 8.9 handled (displayed) 
PDFs as well as my kindle-dx with the failing battery.

Gene