re-testing kde-plasma-networkmanagement

Ben Boeckel MathStuf at gmail.com
Wed Aug 19 21:59:58 UTC 2009


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Patrick Boutilier wrote:

> On 08/19/2009 06:21 PM, Neal Becker wrote:
>> I'm interested in re-testing kde-plasma-networkmanagement to 
see if my issues
>> with connecting to WPA are fixed.
>>
>> How can I test without bricking my machine?  IIRC, I need to 
yum remove
>> NetworkManager-gnome.  I don't want to do anything that 
requires working net
>> to reverse.  Could I just mv /usr/bin/nm-applet{,.save} 
instead?
> 
> I think you can just kill nm-applet while testing 
> kde-plasma-networkmanagement and if it doesn't work you can 
start 
> nm-applet again.
> 

That works. nm-applet will refuse to start if k-p-nm is running 
and k-p-nm will only display nm-applet's status if it exists 
when it starts. How it is now that it is no longer a plasmoid 
(KDED service + system tray), I don't know. A session restart at 
least I imagine.

- --Ben
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