I was recently using MakeMKV to rip some old DVDs to watch using Jellyfin/Plex and ran into an issue where the drive seemed to be in contention between GNOME and MakeMKV.
Manually unmounting the DVD in the GNOME dock and restarting MakeMKV seemed to allow it to continue so I had a quick look for how to change that desktop normally useful behaviour while I was working on this task.
I tried installing dconf-editor but trying to change the org/gnome/desktop/automount value to false gave me a cryptic error about something not being available for editing. Same with other values in that same section. It may have been because I was trying to run it as root rather than my current desktop user or something like that, but since the advice to use that tool was from a decade ago and I'm running Ubuntu 25.10, I had another look around.
I found the gsettings command line utility.
Running gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.media-handling automount false as my logged in user took effect immediately without logging out and in again and I didn't see the MakeMKV problems again.
Afterwards, I ran gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.media-handling automount true to revert to the normally useful default automount behaviour.
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