knetworkmanager and plasmoid

[Eli Wapniarski]

On Thursday 16 September 2010 19:43:47 Gabriel Ramirez wrote:
> 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 uninstalling knetworkmanger and running the commands things appeared in 
the plasmoid.

> 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

What does autoload paramater do???

> 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.

I uninstalled it and it is a very ugly work around. But it did work. Hopefully 
the plasmoid will not develop a bug :(

Thanks for the tip.

Eli

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