NetworkManager applet: force connection list refresh

[Hiisi]

On 7 September 2011 11:10, Pedro Francisco <pedrogfrancisco at gmail.com> wrote:
> Ok I give up (see below). Next attempt: Is there anyway to get the
> old-but-functional nm-applet working on Gnome-Shell instead of the built-in
> 'n buggy one?
>
> On Fri, Sep 2, 2011 at 10:28 AM, Pedro Francisco <pedrogfrancisco at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> Is there anyway to force the NetworkManager applet to refresh its list?
>> Everytime I plug-in my 3G dongle (k3805-z) I have to either go to
>> nm-connection-editor and toggle the option "Connection available for every
>> user" or restart gnome-shell (ALT+F2, r) so the connection for the 3G dongle
>> appears...
>> Any ideas?
>

Sorry for late jumping into the thread.
Prior to F15 there was NetworkManager service. In case of troubles
with nm I used to restart it:
service NetworkManager restart
Perhaps you could write udev-rule to trigger nm-applet restarting when
3G dongle plugged-in.
Just my 2 kopecks.
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