On Wed, Jul 20, 2016 at 11:56:33AM +0100, Dominik Vogt wrote: > To create a Vpn connection you have to use nm-applet from within a > running gnome-session. I've tried to run it on a plain X session, > but then it's missing some bit of configuration.
> All this junk seems to be totally undocumented, so I have no idea > what nm-applet does under the hood. Either there's some secret > communication channel available only under gnome-session, or there > is a permission problem. Has anyone got this to work before? I may be misunderstanding your problem but in Debian, the network-manager VPN plugins all have an additional *-gnome package that must be installed. Network-Manager/OpenVPN won't work for me without network-manager-openvpn-gnome being installed. I don't run gnome-session at all. Claude
