On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 5:43 PM, Dan Williams <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, 2010-09-13 at 12:08 -0500, alkos333 wrote: >> On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 11:12 AM, Robby Workman <[email protected]> wrote: >> > Does it work in a desktop environment (e.g. kde or xfce)? >> > >> > It's fine here in xfce, fwiw. >> >> I haven't tried with KDE or xfce - just fluxbox. > > nm-applet uses gnome-keyring, which needs a bit of setup when used in > non-GNOME environments. If gnome-keyring isn't built with D-Bus > support, then you need to start "gnome-keyring-daemon --daemonize > --login" when your desktop session starts. This will print out an > environment variable that needs to be inserted into the environment of > any other program that starts in the session, which looks like this: > > GNOME_KEYRING_CONTROL=/tmp/keyring-hSwpKJ > > this lets programs like nm-applet know where to look for the keyring > daemon, which is what actually stores your passwords securely. If you > google around there used to be instructions on how to get KDE to handle > running gnome-keyring-daemon manually, I'd assume that whatever session > manager is starting up your desktop probably has the same functionality. > > Dan > > >
Thank you for this explanation, Dan. This helped me resolve the issue. Now gnome-keyring only prompts for the master password when I first start fluxbox and that's it. -- Alex Lysenka Bachelor of Science Computer Science Major Management & Information Systems Major Northern Illinois University [email protected] _______________________________________________ networkmanager-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list
