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frederik

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Registered: 2014-01-05

Posts: 8

[xfce4] network-manager-applet not asking for Wifi password

I am running XFCE with  the gnome network-manager-applet and kwallet as password storage and I do not want to use the gnome keyring because it is making many problems with my current setup.

There are multiple ways to store passwords in NetworkManager. To save them plain in the config files is not an option for me. So I can put them in a password store or hack them in every time I want to connect.
While the gnome network-manager-applet does not work with kwallet I accepted to do all the hackery every time.

Problem: I even can not hack in the passwords.
If I try to connect the connection is disconnected immediately. The logs say, that "The name org.freedesktop.secrets was not provided by any .service files".

Long story short:
- NetworkManager needs the dbus service "org.freedesktop.secrets" to read passwords (via password store or via prompt)
- kwallet does not announce "org.freedesktop.secrets" - this is done by the nm-plasma applet (which I can not run without hacking XFCE)
- gnome-keyring announces itself as a secret agent but does not work with my setup

Do I need to write my own secret agent which only shows a password prompt and parses the input to NM or is there any option/tool/patch/hack/miracle that I have missed to use kwallet with gnome network-manager-applet or to get a password prompt without installing gnome-keyring?

Thanks in advance

Last edited by frederik (2015-04-14 15:30:24)

MakeTheGOD

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Registered: 2015-04-26

Posts: 4

Re: [xfce4] network-manager-applet not asking for Wifi password

add this to your start-up: gnome-keyring-daemon --components=gpg

Edit: and install gnome-keyring ofc

Last edited by MakeTheGOD (2015-04-28 05:24:33)