J. F. Ryder wrote: > Hi, > > I'm running Intrepid with the default NM setup. I have had no luck trying > to configure the applet at all; in particular, I'd like to stop the repeated > "pop-ups" every time a network disconnects or connects. Since the icon > changes shape to indicate connectivity, and I can easily hover over it, > these are superfluous as well as incredibly annoying. But the only menu > options it seems to offer pertain to managing the connections. > > I've found no help from documentation. There's no man page for nm-applet. > nm-applet --help just starts it up! In fact, so far as I can tell all > command line options are completely ignored. By googling around I found > descriptions of nm-applet command-line options, but it's clear they don't > work; I can only imagine this is for another version. > > I've read every man page I can find on NetworkManager, and it describes > virtually no configuration options at all. nm-tool --help also just runs > nm-tool. As another example, I'd like some control over whether a > connection goes onto the "Auto" list, but apparently it puts it there as > soon as I connect once. > > I hope this is the right mailing list for this question. There has been a bug report against 0.6 (with a patch), which allows to disable the popups [1], [2]. The patch would have to be updated for 0.7. Dan, what do you think about that? Would you be ok with such a patch? [1] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=446963 [2] http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=455250 -- Why is it that all of the instruments seeking intelligent life in the universe are pointed away from Earth?
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