Re: nm-applet edit unplugged device connections/profiles

[Thomas Haller <thaller redhat com>]

On Fri, 2019-02-22 at 09:31 -0600, Greg Oliver via networkmanager-list
wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 22, 2019 at 9:08 AM Thomas Haller <thaller redhat com>
> wrote:
> > On Fri, 2019-02-22 at 07:43 -0600, Greg Oliver via networkmanager-
> > list
> > wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > Is there some way to get nm-applet to show unplugged (ethernet
> > > dongles) devices profiles in it's menu at all times?  All of my
> > > recent laptops have been thunderbolt usb-c only and my wired
> > ethernet
> > > adapters have all been one of the variants, but until I plug them
> > in,
> > > I cannot even see my profiles from the GUI anywhere.  Is there
> > some
> > > way to change this behavior?
> > >
> > > Running Fedora (29).
> >
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> >
> > nm-applet is a tool (GUI in the system tray bar) to show devices,
> > which
> > profiles are currently active, and to activate/deactivate profiles
> > on
> > devices.
> >
> > Consequently, you don't see profiles that have no suitable device
> > at
> > the moment.
> >
> > Use nm-connection-editor for that, which only focuses on
> > creating/modifing/deleting profiles.
> >
> >
> > In nm-applet, you can also right click and select "Edit
> > Connections...", which spawns nm-connection-editor -- though, I
> > think
> > right-click does not work if nm-applet uses libappindicator.
> > Regardless
> > of that, you can always start nm-connection-editor manually, the
> > effect
> > is the same.
> >
> >
> > Does that work?
>
> Perfect - exactly what I needed!
>
> Thanks Thomas - I have been looking through the config files and
> nmcli to flip some switch without luck :)
>
> I sure wish that the Gnome folks would not have removed the
> bonding/vlan/connection stuff from Settings, and I always seem to
> forget about nm-connection-editor :-/

Hi,


your last remark makes me wonder whether you are using Gnome3.

Note that gnome-shell in Gnome3 itself has a NetworkManager
integration. That is similar in purpose and appearance to nm-applet.
But nm-applet is a separate application.

Likewise, Gnome3's control-center has a built-in connection-editor.
That's not the same as nm-connection-editor. While gnome-control-
center's NetworkManager GUI does not support bonding/vlan, nm-
connection-editor does.

Just to clear that up -- it is indeed confusing. Use whatever GUI suits
you.


best,
Thomas

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