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Grisnak

08-18-2011 07:57 AM

Network manager needs to be root/superuser (fluxbox startup doesnt work)

Trying to get networkmanager with nm-applet to work in fluxbox.
Added Networkmanager & nm-applet to .fluxbox/startup.

But NetworkManager needs to be run as root, so nm-applet wont start.

Cant find any good info on how to start NetworkManager from the fluxbox startup file.

So... How do I do this?

yuuko

08-18-2011 08:14 AM

Quote:

You will also need to start rc.networkmanager during boot - you can use
rc.local, or perhaps you'll want to edit rc.M's call to rc.wicd... :-)

You also need to be a member of 'netdev' to use nm-applet.

Grisnak

08-18-2011 08:25 AM

I added rc.networkmanager to rc.d/rc.local, and it said during startup that the networkmanager daemon was started.
I also added my user to netdev, but when I try to launch nm-applet I get:

** (nm-applet:2604): WARNING **: <WARN> request_name(): Could not acquire the NetworkManagerUserSettings service.
Error: (9) Connection ":1.20" is not allowed to own the service "org.freedesktop.NetworkManagerUserSettings" due to security policies in the configuration file

Grisnak

08-18-2011 08:46 AM

I tried rebooting with the new usergroup, and this time the applet actually started.

It say's that Im disconnected, and when I click eth0 I get a popup saying disconnected too. Why is this?

beder

08-18-2011 11:19 AM

Where did you installed NetworkManager and nm-applet from?

I installed it from SlackBuilds, building the proper dependencies whenever something screamed while installing, and works fine. If you want to try it, I recommend you download SboPkg to make things easier: http://sbopkg.org/

cwizardone

08-18-2011 05:31 PM

Mr. Workman's packages work just fine,

http://connie.slackware.com/~rworkma...packages/i486/

or

http://connie.slackware.com/~rworkma...ckages/x86_64/

piratesmack

08-18-2011 07:25 PM

If I remember right, I had to launch DBUS to get NetworkManager working right in fluxbox.

Try this in your startup file:

Code:

# test for an existing bus daemon, just to be safe

if test -z "$DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS" ; then

  # if not found, launch a new one

  eval `dbus-launch --sh-syntax --exit-with-session`

fi

nm-applet &

frankbell

08-18-2011 09:25 PM

You can put nm-applet in your ~/.fluxbox/startup file, like this:

Code:

nm-applet &

I ran it like that just fine until I switched to wicd. The "&" ensures that it will keep running after the startup.

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