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Archeon

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Registered: 2016-03-09

Posts: 41

[Issue] nm-applet "Failed to register as an agent" on laptop with i3

When running nm-applet on my laptop using i3 window manager, it gives me the following warning and fails to start.  The nm-applet icon does not appear in the i3status bar either.

$ nm-applet

(nm-applet:1499): nm-applet-WARNING **: Failed to register as an agent: (32) An agent with this ID is already registered for this user.

Then after closing it with Ctrl+C, it gives the following message:

nm-applet-Message: PID 0 (we are 1528) sent signal 2, shutting down...

Does anybody know what might be causing this?

Last edited by Archeon (2016-03-24 16:12:58)

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Steinberg2010

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Registered: 2016-01-28

Posts: 73

Re: [Issue] nm-applet "Failed to register as an agent" on laptop with i3

Try adding this line to your config file:

exec --no-startup-id nm-applet

This works for me.
You would need to remove any other attempts to load nm-applet at boot and then restart.

~S

Archeon

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Registered: 2016-03-09

Posts: 41

Re: [Issue] nm-applet "Failed to register as an agent" on laptop with i3

Try adding this line to your config file:

exec --no-startup-id nm-applet

This works for me.
You would need to remove any other attempts to load nm-applet at boot and then restart.

~S

That's actually the line that I have in my i3 config, but the nm-applet icon does not appear in the i3status bar.  It not showing up promped me to try running it in the terminal.  Thanks for the suggestion though!

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