X on tty1 in Rawhide/F10

[Chuck Anderson]

On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 11:54:30PM -0400, Dan Williams wrote:
> On Tue, 2008-10-28 at 17:40 -0400, Joshua Baker-LePain wrote:
> > On Tue, 28 Oct 2008 at 5:31pm, Bill Nottingham <notting at redhat.com> wrote
> > 
> > > Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski (dominik at greysector.net) said: 
> > > > As long as I keep loosing my network connection upon log-out,
> > > > NetworkManager is not an option and has no place on my machines.
> > > 
> > > Right-click -> "Edit connections", pick your preferred setting, 
> > > click on 'System setting'.
> > 
> > Right-click on what?  I run fvwm.  How are non-DE users supposed to 
> > interact with NM?
> > 
> > > (Note: Not valid for WPA, etc. That doesn't work outside of NM anyway...)
> 
> When I enable the keyfile plugin for system settings (next update now
> that moving connections between user and system works) then yes, all of
> WPA, Mobile Broadband, VPN, and wired 802.1x will work _before login_
> and _across logins_.  Yay for progress!

Has any work been done on a command line tool (like nm-tool) so that 
you can interact with NM and connect to networks without logging into 
a GUI?  I'd love to see that...