A question about NetworkManager

[Matthew Saltzman]

On Mon, 27 Mar 2006 akonstam at trinity.edu wrote:

> On Mon, Mar 27, 2006 at 08:55:36AM -0500, Matthew Saltzman wrote:
>> On Mon, 27 Mar 2006 akonstam at trinity.edu wrote:
>>
>>> On Mon, Mar 27, 2006 at 12:48:54AM +0100, Timothy Murphy wrote:
>>>> akonstam at trinity.edu wrote:
>>>>
>>>> What _precisely_ did you do?
>>>> Ie what commands did you give,
>>>> or which icons did you click?
>>> Right click on the panel. Choose Add to Panel. One of the options will
>>> be to add Network Monitor to the Panel.
>>
>> The Netowrk Monitor applet is not NetworkManager.  It's more an interface
>> to system-config-network.
>>
>> All I did to get the NetworkManager applet--more of a notification icon
>> than an applet--(/usr/bin/nm-applet) was to "/sbin/service NetworkManager
>> start".  If that doesn't work, you can then start nm-applet from the
>> command line.  Once nm-applet has been started once, it should be
>> preserved across logins, as long as NetworkManager is running.
>>
> I can start nm-applet but I can't get it to work consistently. It asks
> me for the passwd for example but it does no connect. Well once it did
> but I can't do it a second time. Presumable NetworkManager is run when
> I boot but no nm-applet is launched unless I do it on the command line.
>
> I can see that it is the facility that I was looking for but I just
> can't make it work. I get errors when it starts that I included in
> another fedora message.
> (nm-applet:5719): libglade-WARNING **: unknown property `urgency_hint'
> for class `GtkDialog'
>
> (nm-applet:5719): libglade-WARNING **: unknown property `urgency_hint'
> for class `GtkDialog'
>
> I don't know what these errors mean. Do you?

I don't, but you should bring this up on the networkmanager-list at gnome.org 
list.  There are definitely a few bugs in the system, though when it 
works, it's the greatest thing since thinly sliced cabbage.

-- 
 		Matthew Saltzman

Clemson University Math Sciences
mjs AT clemson DOT edu
http://www.math.clemson.edu/~mjs