Hi,
This might work for you, since you mentioned you want to move to stock
Debian. I'm running Debian Testing, and things are working fine. I
regularly switch back and forth between GNOME and E, as I'm one of the six
people on earth who actually like GNOME 3. I think they got the idea right
with dynamic virtual desktops and the "overview". If only GNOME3 was more
like E or vice versa.
Anyway, it works for me and I think it will work for you. For some reason,
NetworkManager seems to connect to my wireless even when I login with E. So
I am in E, but the connman applet just looks like a (!) icon, but I'm
online so I'm not going to worry about it. I believe it depends on me
having used GNOME before, somehow NM remembers its settings.
On the other hand, some people are talking about uninstalling and
reinstalling every time they login to a different desktop. I would be very
annoyed if I had to do that. Slightly less annoying, I can switch the
services via:
$ su
# invoke-rc.d networkmanager stop
# connmand & exit # the debian connman script is broken otherwise we would
be able to invoke-rc.d connman start
and I can switch back via:
$ su
# killall connmand
# invoke-rc.d networkmanager start
But in the present situation, I really don't need to do any of that, so why
should I? I hope this works for you too.
Regards,
Anthony
On Sat, 05 Jan 2013 16:29:32 -0500, Chris Jones <cjns1...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Subject: [e-users] EFL/trunk - missing EConnMan module
> To: enlightenment-users@lists.sourceforge.net
> Message-ID: <20130105212932.GA4876@pavo.local>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8
>
> I just borked a clean recent vanilla kubuntu (quantal?) system like so:
>
> | % add-apt-repository ppa:efl/trunk
> | % apt-get update
> | % apt-get upgrade
> | % apt-get install e17
>
> I logged out of my KDE/Plasma session, selected enlightenment from the
> lightdm menu, logged back in, and ran the e17 wizard making no changes
> to the defaults.
>
> That's where I noticed that I was missing my laptop's Wifi led.
>
> I wasn't expecting a notification, so I thought that this was just
> a matter of manually configuring the ConnMan (?) applet. So, I clicked
> on the icon in the Shelf, checked 'Wifi On', clicked 'Configure'...
>
> This caused a popup to be displayed with an ominous-looking exclamation
> mark in a triangle, and the following error message:
>
> | This module wants to execute an external application eConnMan that
> | does not exist. Please install EConnMan application."
>
> So, if the message really means what it says, it looks like whatever
> package should have installed EConnMan ('ConnMan' prefixed with an 'E')
> is missing.. 'optional', perhaps.. not pulled when I installed e17..?
>
> The KDE wifi stuff (network manager, I believe) having been removed by
> the e17 install and since I only have wifi internet at this point, I am
> stuck. I cannot just reinstall network manager and start over.
>
> Any suggestions how I could work around this..?
>
> If I understand the problem correctly (?), I was thinking I might get
> away with manually downloading the missing .deb(s) from the repos at
> launchpad.net/efl and (re)installing via ?dpkg -i?.
>
> Keeping in mind I am not too worried about the long-term integrity of
> the apt environment on this particular system, is there any chance that
> this might work without wasting too much time over it..?
>
> The question is what package(s).. Just the one that has EConnMan.. other
> packages on top of that.. all the e17 packages for my ubuntu release..?
>
> Incidentally, in the event I eventually manage to get this to work under
> e17, how am I supposed to switch between Plasma/KDE (or any other
> desktop/wm) and e17 thereafter..? Not by installing, removing,
> reinstalling.. network manager and ConnMan every time I log in and out,
> surely..? Once my wifi connection is up again, should I just forget
> about the applets and set up wicd..?
>
> While I'm at it, here are a couple of other problems I've run into:
>
> 1. The 'applications' menu is empty - hence I cannot even as much as
> launch an xterm (worked around that by creating a Favorites menu with
> Uxterm + a couple of other things)..
>
> 2. The 'navigate' menu appears to be populated by entries with the names
> of a bunch of well-known screensavers.. antmaze, antinspect, etc.
> Hum.. Maybe I did screw up when running the wizard after all ;-)
>
> 3. I can no longer Ctrl+Alt+Fx to fall back to a linux console.. All
> I?get is a black screen. I?have to log out and use lightdm's 'log to
> console' option. This doesn't happen with plasma/KDE. I'm running
> a framebuffer console and the nvidia proprietary blob-?rather than
> nouveau.
>
> 4. KDE applications such as Konsole, calibre, etc. appear to crash at
> startup. I didn't bother writing down any of the numerous cryptic
> messages & investigating at this point..
>
> Likely most of these other symptoms are unrelated to the wifi issue, but
> then again they might provide a clue..
>
> But apart from the system being unusable at this point, everything else
> looks good to me..!!
>
> A quick note about where I'm coming from. I have been keeping an eye on
> e16/e17 for close to 12 years, and recently contemplating a switch from
> my ageing Window Maker to enlightenment but I'd rather have a 'real
> system' running off of my HD (eventually stock debian rather than one of
> the ubuntu's, mint's, bhodi's..). I am not interested in running Elive
> either at this point. No rush in any case and this approach should make
> it easier to make up my mind when the time comes..
>
> Sorry for the long-winded post and tia for any suggestions.
>
> Thanks,
>
> CJ
>
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