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

Il giorno gio 8 set 2022 alle ore 09:59 Carsten Haitzler <
[email protected]> ha scritto:

> 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.
>

I'm quite sure the custom build is not necessary anymore, under E I just
run:
nm-applet --indicator
and it works fine (no idea for wifi password as I do not have wifi here)
(the applet is installed using the default archlinux network-manager-applet
pkg)


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