knetworkmanager and plasmoid

[Gabriel Ramirez]

On 09/16/2010 10:29 AM, Eli Wapniarski wrote:
>
> Quoting martin king<infinite.nwar at gmail.com>:
>
>>    On 09/16/2010 10:20 AM, Michael J Gruber wrote:
>>> martin king venit, vidit, dixit 16.09.2010 16:14:
>>>> K... This is weird.... I added two vpn just for fun. I see some space
>>>> added to
>>>> the nm-applet, but there is no writing in them. I'm assuming the same
>>>> is true
>>>> for my wireless connection. When I click on any of these items nothing
>>>> happens.
>>>>
>>>> I'm having the same problems trying to connect to a VPN in Fedora 13,
>>>> KDE 4.5.1.
>>>> I can add a VPN configuration, but I can't see any way to connect to it.
>>>> I see extra (blank) space added to the applet menu, but clicking on it
>>>> has no effect.
>>> knetworkmanager or plasmoid?
>>>
>>> Michael
>>>
>>
>> Ah -- sorry, that was knetworkmanager.
>> I've installed the plasmoid now, which is slightly better (it shows my
>> wired connection at least), but still does not list the VPN connection
>> so that I can connect to it (it is only listed under the 'manage
>> connections' tool).
>>
>
> Exactly
>
> Eli
>
>
hi,

well, if you have your VPN configured via "Manage Connections" in the 
plasmoid

in a terminal run the two commands:

qdbus org.kde.kded /kded unloadModule networkmanagement
qdbus org.kde.kded /kded loadModule networkmanagement

after that your vpn connection will be listed in the right side of the 
plasmoid window under Connections

if the connection appears you will have to edit:

/usr/share/kde4/services/kded/networkmanagement.desktop
and change:
X-KDE-Kded-autoload=false
to
X-KDE-Kded-autoload=true

you will need deactivate knetworkmanager,

maybe nasty things will happen if you run knetworkmanager with the 
plasmoid at the same time

but I don't remember how do it, I did a yum remove knetworkmanager but 
maybe that isn't a solution for all people.

regards,

Gabriel