NetworkManager help?

[Dan Williams]

On Wed, 2006-03-08 at 12:48 -0500, Jeremy Katz wrote:
> On Wed, 2006-03-08 at 07:57 -0500, Dan Williams wrote:
> > On Tue, 2006-03-07 at 18:15 -0800, Tom London wrote:
> > > Sorry for the wrong answer, I misread.....
> > > 
> > > nm-applet is meant to be run in the background.  Are you saying that
> > > if you do this, you don't get the applet in the panel?
> > > 
> > > Have you started the NetworkManager and NetworkManagerDispatcher
> > > services?  (From a root terminal window, do 'ps agx | grep Network';
> > > are they both running?)
> > 
> > To get the applet in the panel, you now need to:
> > 
> > a) add the Notification Area applet to your panel
> > b) run /usr/bin/nm-applet
> 
> I think Ray said that nm-applet is being run by the session always
> now.  

It does get 'autostarted', yes.

> > c) ensure that NM is running as well, since the applet hides itself when
> > NM isn't running
> 
> So you should just need to enable the NetworkManager service

Correct.

Dan