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aport

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From: San Diego

Registered: 2008-02-20

Posts: 99

Can't background nm-applet

For some reason KDE doesn't start nm-applet with the rest of the programs I tell it to autostart.  I start with

nm-applet --sm-disable

No big deal right, let me just open up a terminal and start it there. Great! There it is. Connected to my wireless network and everything! Now, let's just close this terminal... OH! nm-applet stopped running.

When I start nm-applet in a terminal like so:

nm-applet --sm-disable &

It _will_ not stay running after I close the terminal. What the hell?

I suppose a solution to either of my issues would be great.

miau

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Registered: 2009-05-06

Posts: 202

Re: Can't background nm-applet

Have you tried one of the GUI suggestions from the wiki for KDE?

Caedmon

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Registered: 2009-08-08

Posts: 18

Re: Can't background nm-applet

Can this be a problem with your shell perhaps? I've had the same issue with my terminals using zsh. The shell killed all it's children when exiting, I had to unset this behaviour by adding "setopt nohup" in .zshrc.

aport

Member

From: San Diego

Registered: 2008-02-20

Posts: 99

Re: Can't background nm-applet

So my workaround was to start nm-applet with the KDE app launch thingy (alt+f2)