Re: [e-users] Gnome Control Center missing ... something

On Thu, 8 Sep 2022 11:02:17 +1000 Daniel Kasak <[email protected]> said:

> On Fri, Sep 2, 2022 at 4:30 AM Davide Andreoli <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> 
> > Under sway wm (wayland) I use NetworkManager and to make it ask the
> > password I have to run:
> > /usr/lib/polkit-gnome/polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1
> > on startup.
> 
> 
> Hi Davide. Thanks for the response :)
> 
> Ah yes! I do remember having to run this manually, long ago. Unfortunately
> it won't run for me now though:
> 
> [dankasak@hyperion ~]$ /usr/libexec/polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1
> Cannot register authentication agent:
> GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.PolicyKit1.Error.Failed: An authentication
> agent already exists for the given subject
> [dankasak@hyperion ~]$
> 
> I've checked in: Settings Panel ==> Apps ==> Desktop Environments ==> Major
> Desktops ... and I *don't* have either Gnome or KDE services launching.
> What might be occupying the "given subject"?

e runs its own polkit auth agent. this is not what you want. you want a
network manager front end - like nm-applet. that would provide the password
agent for network manager. unfortunately this needs to be built with status
notifier support and run explicitly with a cmdline option to enable that.

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