brasero versus k3b?

[Tom Horsley]

I needed to write an iso image to a DVD-R. I run brasero and
it claims there is no drive on the system. I run k3b in the
same login session, and it works fine. Does brasero only work if
I'm running a full gnome session with the 10,487 gnome daemons
in the background? (I'm running a custom fvwm session, not gnome).

[Richard Shaw]

On Sat, Oct 24, 2020 at 6:30 PM Tom Horsley <horsley1953(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote:

>  I needed to write an iso image to a DVD-R. I run brasero and
>  it claims there is no drive on the system. I run k3b in the
>  same login session, and it works fine. Does brasero only work if
>  I'm running a full gnome session with the 10,487 gnome daemons
>  in the background? (I'm running a custom fvwm session, not gnome).
>  
Brasero is not well maintained but it's still strange it didn't see your
drive at all. In either case, I moved on to xfburn for general use and use
the command line (xorriso) for dual layer DB burning.

https://www.gnu.org/software/xorriso/

Thanks,
Richard

[Robert G. (Doc) Savage]

On Sun, 2020-10-25 at 06:09 -0500, Richard Shaw wrote:
>  On Sat, Oct 24, 2020 at 6:30 PM Tom Horsley
> <horsley1953(a)gmail.com&gt;
>  wrote:
>  > I needed to write an iso image to a DVD-R. I run brasero and
>  > 
>  > it claims there is no drive on the system. I run k3b in the
>  > 
>  > same login session, and it works fine. Does brasero only work if
>  > 
>  > I'm running a full gnome session with the 10,487 gnome daemons
>  > 
>  > in the background? (I'm running a custom fvwm session, not gnome).
>  
>  Brasero is not well maintained but it's still strange it didn't see
>  your drive at all. In either case, I moved on to xfburn for general
>  use and use the command line (xorriso) for dual layer DB burning.
>  
>  https://www.gnu.org/software/xorriso/ 
Richard,

Side comment:  I recently had to burn a small ISO to a CD-R in F32 with
the MATE desktop. K3B simply didn't work, but rusty trusty Brasero got
the job done with no muss or fuss.

--Doc Savage
    Fairview Heights, IL