Re: A comment on NetworkManager

[Gene Heskett <gene heskett verizon net>]

Dan Williams wrote:
> On Fri, 2006-05-12 at 11:57 -0500, Gene Heskett wrote:
>   
> > Garry Williams wrote:
> >     
> > > On 5/12/06, Gene Heskett <gene heskett verizon net> wrote:
> > >       
> > > > What is this "nm_applet" people are talking about?  I don't believe its
> > > > installed on this FC5 system.
> > > >         
> > > $ rpm -q --file /usr/bin/nm-applet
> > > NetworkManager-gnome-0.6.0-3
> > >
> > >       
> > Ok, I have this:
> > [root diablo ~]# rpm -q --file /usr/bin/nm-applet
> > NetworkManager-gnome-0.6.2-2.fc5
> >
> > Now, pray tell, how is it we use this?
> >     
>
> If you use GNOME, it's autolaunched when you log in.  You should never
> need to run it.  We made the decision to autolaunch only for GNOME
> because we figured that KDE users would likely not want the applet
> running all the time, as they would use knetworkmanager for that.
>
>   
Except that knetworkmanager didn't make it into the FC5 distro.  Nuff said.
> But make sure you run it as "/usr/bin/nm-applet --sm-disable" to disable
> the session management.  The autolaunch stuff does this by default.
>
> Dan
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Cheers, Gene