On Thu, 2020-09-17 at 14:32 +0200, Hans wrote: > OK, I have rechecked my configurations. It appears, that network-manager is > started, when I do a "systemctl enable NetworkManager". However, still /etc/ > init.d/network-manager is missing. Dunno, if this is still needed.
systemd uses /lib/systemd/system/NetworkManager.service to start NetworkManager; the init script isn't used by systemd. > When I am running plasma, then nm-applet gets access to the network-manager > service, but when I start LXDE, I get the message, that the network-manger- > service is not running. So it looks for me, like a rights problem. > > When I do start nm-applet as root in LXDE, then I get access to the network- > manager-service, but when I do the same as a normal user, access is forbidden > (something dbus and so). Hmm, I don't maintain network-manager and am not quite sure, but for permission issues I would guess that PolicyKit is configured to allow access only to logged in users, but the system thinks you are not logged in. Maybe check with `loginctl` for an active session? Do you use the same way to start Plasma and LXDE, i.e. the same display manager (sddm, lightdm, gdm), or is there a difference? > I would not have changed to nemtwork-manager, because I was happy with wicd, > but as wicd was removed from the repo, I chose the alternative. wicd was removed from testing/unstable as part of the Python2 removal, but there is a version in experimental that uses Python 3. You could try to install that or wait until it gets uploaded to unstable. Ansgar
