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silverhammermba

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Registered: 2011-04-14

Posts: 156

Start gnome-keyring-daemon before nm-applet? (no login manager)

I'm having a hard time getting networkmanager and gnome-keyring to work together. In my .xinitrc I have

...
gnome-keyring-daemon --start --foreground --components=secrets &
nm-applet --sm-disable &
...

But when I boot, nm-applet still prompts me for wireless passwords. If I kill nm-applet and restart it, then gnome-keyring prompts me for my keyring password and nm-applet stops asking for saved passwords. What is the correct way of starting these processes so that nm-applet can access the keyring on boot?

I'm stuck using networkmanager because wicd can't connect to my school's wireless.

Edit:
Okay, I think I found a partial workaround. If I run nm-connection-editor as root I can manually enter in all the connection info and click "Available to all users". If I run the connection editor without root privileges that box never stays ticked. It's still a pain though, and I have a feeling that I'm doing something wrong.

Last edited by silverhammermba (2011-04-26 18:47:05)