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Teotoo

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Registered: 2011-10-03

Posts: 1

Gnome3 proxy settings

Hi there,
I've been at this for a while now, and cant seem to figure out how to set network proxy settings in gnome3 *properly*.

I need to set up a connection to a proxy server with all values ipaddressofproxy, port number, username and password. Is there any way I can do this without using system settings's network manager? It's apparently lacking the options to submit authentication.

i've tried exporting proxy settings too, but that didn't work.

Thanks so much,

bananaoomarang

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Registered: 2009-10-29

Posts: 180

Re: Gnome3 proxy settings

I've used Gnome3 lots, and I found settings to be... Sparse.

Install Chromium and go to spanner -> preferences -> under the hood -> proxy settings. I know that that *tries* to open your DE's native 'proper' proxy manager. If it can't find anything/opens up something Chrome-native, then it probably doesn't exist yet.

Try dconf, there's probably an option in there somewhere.

And exporting variables doesn't work? Even for apps launched from a command line session where the variable is defined? Do you know what type of proxy you're dealing with, if it's using NTLMAuth, you'll need libntlm or a proxy tunnel like cntlm.

Good luck!

EDIT: Found this hope it helps.

Last edited by bananaoomarang (2011-10-06 18:24:09)