GNOME NetworkManager Applet in KDE in openSUSE 11.4
The KDE NetworkManager plasmoid used in openSUSE 11.4 has some issues and rough edges. Some of those will be fixed in an online update expected to be out soon. If you want to help make the NetworkManager plasmoid better you can read about filing good bug reports against it here.
If the plasmoid is not working for your needs you can easily and safely use the GNOME NetwokManager applet (nm-applet) in KDE instead. Just follow the steps below (# means run as root, $ means run as normal user):
1) Upgrade oxygen-gtk – otherwise nm-applet will fail to start:
# zypper addrepo -f http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/KDE:/UpdatedApps/openSUSE_11.4 kua
# zypper install 'oxygen-gtk>=1.0.3'
2) Install nm-applet:
# zypper install NetworkManager-gnome
3) Remove the KDE applet:
# zypper remove NetworkManager-kde4-libs
4) Make nm-applet autostart on login:
$ ln -s /usr/bin/nm-applet ~/.kde4/Autostart/nm-applet-link
5) Reboot
Thanks to oxygen-gtk nm-applet will even integrate quite well in the look and feel of KDE.
EDIT: An updated version of the KDE NetworkManager plasmoid is now available in the KDE:UpdatedApps repository. You may want to try this before moving to the GNOME applet. Install it as follows:
Add the repository:
zypper addrepo -f http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/KDE:/UpdatedApps/openSUSE_11.4/ kua
Upgrade the packages:
zypper in 'plasmoid-networkmanagement>=0.9.1git20110503' 'NetworkManager-kde4-libs>=0.9.1git20110503'
You will be asked to allow vendor change for some packages. And you might be asked to remove NetworkManager-kde4. Allow both.
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Great tip, thanks a lot! I’d love the KDE NM to work as well as the Gnome one
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How do i revert all this stuff when knm is fixed? do you think it is fixed by now?
There has been no update for the KDE NM plasmoid yet.
If you want to switch back to the KDE plasmoid all you have to do is:
1) Remove the link to autostart nm-applet
$ rm ~/.kde4/Autostart/nm-applet-link
2) Reinstall the KDE NetworkManager plasmoid:
# zypper install plasmoid-networkmanagement
3) Reboot
Thanks!
I have a problem, i deinstalled every networkmanager related thing and now i dont have internet connection anymore. i want to install gnome networkmanager, but how do i do this without internet?? My OS is openSUSE with KDE 4.6.
Thanks in advance, Evert.
Fire up YaST -> Go to “Network Settings” -> select to use ifup method instead of NetworkManager.
Configure your network with YaST. And then install the packages you need, and switch back to NetworkManager in YaST if that’s what you want to use.
i already did, but doesnt seem to work.
Thanks for the very fast reply.
Thanks a lot for the post. I have some inconvenients by step 4, I get the following message
If ‘$’ is not a typo you can use command-not-found to lookup the package that contains it, like this:
cnf $
I’m new to opensuse so I don’t have too much idea what could be wrong here.
The ‘$’ is not part of the command, it’s just an indication that the command should be ran as the normal user, whereas ‘#’ is the indication for root.
Well, my networkmanager tray icon is gone… how can i fix this???
Surprisingly (apparently), how to start the applet depends on which applet you’re trying to use.
Check that the applet you want to use is actually installed (plasmoid-networkmanagement or NetworkManager-gnome).
The command to start the gnomer applet is ‘nm-applet’, plasmoid-networkmanagement can be enabled in the systray settings if that’s what you’re trying to use.
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[...] The KDE NetworkManager plasmoid used in openSUSE 11.4 has some issues and rough edges. Some of those will be fixed in an online update expected to be out soon. If you want to help make the NetworkManager plasmoid better you can read about filing good bug reports against it here. If the plasmoid is not working for your needs you can easily and safely use the GNOME NetwokManager applet (nm-applet) in KDE instead. Just follow the steps below (# mean … Read More [...]
Hello, this is the thing that I search for along time .
Many thanks
Plasmoid is available but it still sucks, even on 12.1 :/ It has a big problem with kwallet… I still prefere the Gnome one
So it still sucks on 12.1… I have not checked. For detailed instructions you can refer to my blog entry on this subject:
http://susestarter.blogspot.com/2011/03/step-2-need-mobile-broadband-use-gnome.html
for configuring the gnome applet to work in KDE 4.
openSUSE 12.1 has gnome 3.2.x and after zypper dup from openSUSE 11.4 nm-applet was upgrated to the gtk3 version. Works great, but sometimes the icons are very big :/
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