Re: Network Manager and Gnome Proxy Settings

[Daniel Rogers <dsrogers hp com>]

On Sat, 2010-09-18 at 17:32 +0000, Darren Hart wrote:
> On Sat, Sep 18, 2010 at 10:12 AM, Daniel Rogers <dsrogers hp com> wrote:
> 
> > Then when the network comes up set the properties in $HOME/.nm/gconf
> > without a running gconfd with gconftool --direct:
> >
> > gconftool --direct --config-source=xml:readwrite:$HOME/.nm/gconf --load=
> > $HOME/.nm/system.proxy.xml /system/proxy
> > gconftool --direct --config-source=xml:readwrite:$HOME/.nm/gconf --load=
> > $HOME/.nm/system.http_proxy.xml /system/http_proxy
> > #this part forces all running gconfd-2's to reload read-only data.
> > killall -q -HUP gconfd-2
> 
> 
> Where do you run this script from? The nm dispatcher scripts are run
> as root, so the $HOME would expand to /root, rather than
> /home/<myuser>...

I have a dispatcher script that dispatches per user and per location. 

http://www.phasevelocity.org/~daniel/nm-scripts.tgz

> Hrm, that is the sort of breakage I was trying to avoid by using the
> gconf tool. Why use gconf at all if breaks the GNOME tooling? It would
> be far easier to just write to /etc/environment and a similar user
> file that the .bashrc can source. I suppose this doesn't setup the
> gnome proxy for apps that use that... ugh...

It doesn't break everything else, just gnome-network-settings.
Everything else is still able to use gconf to get the system proxy
settings.  

Regarding /etc/environment ... you could gather enough information about
your login session to figure out how to connect to gconfd in another
session, and set it there.  Or use a custom gnome-session setup that
always puts the socket in the same place (perhaps in /var/cache
or /var/run).  I didn't mind losing the functionality of
gnome-network-settings, since it wasn't particularly useful to me
anyway.

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