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penguin

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From: Gotham City

Registered: 2010-12-31

Posts: 168

[SOLVED] nm-applet GUI will not start

Main goal: Get VPN working, which means uninstall my faithful wicd-curses, and install NetworkManager.

Problem: After login, startx, and NetworkManager connected me to Internet I try to launch nm-applet and it spits out errors, and doesn't give me any graphical window (but the terminal doesn't return). I'm not using Gnome, but it installed all it's dependencies.

What I did:
I uninstall wicd, remove it with

sudo systemctl disable wicd.service

and added

sudo systemctl enable NetworkManager.service

reboot, and I get wired Internet fine. I launch nm-applet, and the GUI won't start.

$nm-applet 

(nm-applet:3076): Gtk-WARNING **: Theme parsing error: gtk.css:36:16: Theming engine 'xfce' not found

(nm-applet:3076): Gtk-WARNING **: Theme parsing error: gtk.css:84:18: Not using units is deprecated. Assuming 'px'.

(nm-applet:3076): Gtk-WARNING **: Theme parsing error: gtk.css:84:20: Not using units is deprecated. Assuming 'px'.

My window manager is stumpwm, and I really don't care about notifications etc. I just want to start it, so I can configure my VPN, which should work according to the wiki:

network-manager-applet will work fine in Xfce, but in order to see notifications, including error messages, nm-applet needs an implementation of the Freedesktop desktop notifications specification

EDIT: Fix linked as pointed out by first reply

Last edited by penguin (2014-05-01 21:31:09)

Raynman

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Registered: 2011-10-22

Posts: 1,539

Re: [SOLVED] nm-applet GUI will not start

which should work according to the wiki:

network-manager-applet will work fine in Xfce, but in order to see notifications, including error messages, nm-applet needs an implementation of the Freedesktop desktop notifications specification

You linked to one section and quoted another. You really should follow your own link and read that section. nm-applet is running, but it's called an applet because it works via a systray rather than as a standalone app. If you just want to edit connections, you can start the GUI for that by running nm-connection-editor (this might still require a running nm-applet, I'm not sure).

penguin

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From: Gotham City

Registered: 2010-12-31

Posts: 168

Re: [SOLVED] nm-applet GUI will not start

Thanks. Fixed the link.

I uninstalled network-manager-applet (making me 30 MB ritcher), and just use nm-connection-edit (which I didn't know about) and nmcli.