Peter Seebach writes:
> Does this explain why xmcd stays permanently convinced that there's no disk
> in my drive after a change, until I quit it and restart?

I also had this problem for a while, but I stumbled upon the following
configuration variable, and once I changed the setting from 'False' to
'True', xmcd again worked fine.  You may want to give it a try.

closeOnEject:           True

					-jarle
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