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jlight2011

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From: Melbourne

Registered: 2011-06-15

Posts: 51

[Solved]Gnome 3 global proxy settings not working

Hi
My laptop runs Arch and I use it at a hostel and University. Both have different proxy settings and I had configured it by using a script (if one can call it that) in {/etc/profile.d/} that exported the correct settings. I had to edit (comment/uncomment) my setting every time I mover my laptop.

I need the setting globally for Chromium to pick it up. Chromium until recently had a problem when accessing the Gnome 3 network (proxy) settings. A new update seem to have fixed this but the problem of picking up the setting remains.

I started up a terminal to see how that global proxy setting in Gnome 3 were shown and found that only the following were set

https_proxy
all_proxy
ftp_proxy

The main one that I need {http_proxy} was not set, even thought I defined it. I think this is an issue with Gnome 3 and was not sure where I should report it. Any solutions will be much appreciated.

Last edited by jlight2011 (2012-10-24 11:46:46)

wonder

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Re: [Solved]Gnome 3 global proxy settings not working

well, set up proxy from System Settings->Network and chromium is going to pick it up(if they fixed it).

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jlight2011

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From: Melbourne

Registered: 2011-06-15

Posts: 51

Re: [Solved]Gnome 3 global proxy settings not working

Done that...but does not work. I do not believe it is a Chromium issue. I cant use it, for example, with wget. I remember in my older Gnome I was able to set the proxy settings and use it everywhere i.e. Chromium, wget, firefox all picked it up. Now none pick up the http_proxy, to use wget for example I have to 'export' before I do anything.

jakobcreutzfeldt

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Registered: 2011-05-12

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Re: [Solved]Gnome 3 global proxy settings not working

I've had issues lately with Gnome 3 and proxy settings. For example, as of today (or sometime this weekend) Firefox is not obeying the system proxy settings (System Settings -> Network -> Proxy). Even better was that today I found that the system proxy settings had "magically" reset to proxy.company.com:8080 (or whatever their default setting is). If I manually set Firefox's proxy settings, it connects just fine. All terminal applications that I use only obey the http_proxy environment variable. Other programs, such as Evolution, seem to not obey the Gnome system proxy settings but only the ones set in GConf (not DConf) (which were also "magically" reset today).

jakobcreutzfeldt

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Re: [Solved]Gnome 3 global proxy settings not working

Done that...but does not work. I do not believe it is a Chromium issue. I cant use it, for example, with wget. I remember in my older Gnome I was able to set the proxy settings and use it everywhere i.e. Chromium, wget, firefox all picked it up. Now none pick up the http_proxy, to use wget for example I have to 'export' before I do anything.

Are you exporting http_proxy in your .bashrc?

jakobcreutzfeldt

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Re: [Solved]Gnome 3 global proxy settings not working

Also, be sure you set up Proxydriver:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Ne … y_settings