On Wed, Jul 20, 2016 at 11:56:33AM +0100, Dominik Vogt wrote:
> It's really not an fvwm problem, but this is driving me crazy.
> The new box at work has some integrated environment using Gnome
> ("Openclient"). 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. At the moment to get a connection I run fvwm on
> :0, then switch to initlevel 5 from there. This starts gdm on :1.
> There I log in to a gnome-session, start the connection and switch
> back to :0, leaving Gnome running in the background. (This works
> only if nm-applet is run on :1 in the gnome-session, not if it's
> run on :0.)
>
> 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?
>
> Ciao
>
> Dominik ^_^ ^_^
I have used nm-applet with fvwm in the past, but it's been a while.
I started it initially with this:
+ I Test (Init) Schedule 2000 Exec nm-applet
And you can swallow it into a fvwm button with this:
*FvwmButtons (Swallow (NoClose, UseOld) "stalonetray" `Exec stalonetray &
nm-applet`)
You need to install stalonetray. Then you can click on the icon to open
it. You could also try the wicd network manager.
E Frank Ball fra...@frankb.us
