nm-applet-WARNING: what am I missing

[Bob Marcan]

On Thu, 12 Feb 2015 03:30:33 +0100
poma <pomidorabelisima at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 11.02.2015 21:49, Ranjan Maitra wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > On a new F21 installation from scratch, I am getting the following message:
> > 
> > % nm-applet
> > 
> > GLib-GIO-Message: Using the 'memory' GSettings backend. Your settings will not be saved or shared with other applications.
> > 
> > (nm-applet:1436): nm-applet-WARNING **: Failed to initialize D-Bus: /bin/dbus-launch terminated abnormally without any error message
> > 
> > 
> > This makes me think that I am missing some package. What could it be? How do I trouble-shoot?
> > 
> > Many thanks for any pointers and best wishes,
> > Ranjan
> > 
> > 
> > 
> 
> % nm-applet
> bash: fg: %: no such job
> 
> nm-applet --help
> Usage: nm-applet
> 
> This program is a component of NetworkManager (https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/NetworkManager/).
> It is not intended for command-line interaction but instead runs in the GNOME desktop environment.
> 
> 

You need some kind of the system tray.
I'm running this under fvwm with the stalonetray.
BR, Bob