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martindemello

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Registered: 2009-01-16

Posts: 13

[solved] getting around gnome's universal proxy settings

I changed my network proxy settings in chromium today, clicking on the default "use this proxy for all protocols", and all of a sudden pidgin couldn't connect any more. Poking around a bit more I realised that both chrome and pidgin were drawing on some sort of central gnome proxy settings. Is there any way to get around that? I absolutely don't want such a thing - I want per-application proxy settings, with perhaps "use gnome settings" as one of the options - but I couldn't see any option in either chromium or pidgin for that.

Last edited by martindemello (2010-01-02 20:45:01)

martindemello

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Registered: 2009-01-16

Posts: 13

Re: [solved] getting around gnome's universal proxy settings

worked around by disabling the proxy in gnome and then starting chrome via chromium-browser --proxy-server=host:port; not really a solution but it solves my specific case.