Where is the network manager I downloaded?

[Anonymous]

I downloaded a network manager to manage a VPN but I’m unable to open it up. Ceni says the new network manager is running but how to I access it? It’s not anywhere in the start menu as far as I can see.

[Forum Admin dolphin_oracle]

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you probably want to install the gui client to go with it. network-manager-gnome for example.

[Anonymous]

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I’ve installed the gui client now. I opened up nm-connection-editor and added my vpn info so how do I access the options in the image?

[Moderator caprea]

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Anonymous wrote:

so how do I access the options in the image?

Not sure what you mean by that exactly.
Normally network-manager should start with your chosen options.
It could be that you missed making these changes in etc/network/interfaces
https://www.antixforum.com/network-manager-available-in-antix-repos/

Also if you like to have an applet for network-manager in the taskbar,you can write this in your .desktop-session/startup file
nm-applet &

[Anonymous]

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Which operating system, which version, which desktop environment?
Asking because from the screenshot, I don’t recognize ” [icon] Terminal – user@… ”
and from a quick glance I would have guessed it’s a screenshot from a MX Linux desktop

maybe it’s antiX, and you’ve just installed an aternative terminal emulator app,
but I would expect to see one of the following labels in taskbar, vs “Terminal – user@…”
LXTerminal
ROXTerm
urxvt

[Forum Admin dolphin_oracle]

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I just tried installing network-manager on my antiX 17 install (testing repos) and while network-manager service reports success loading, it actually doesn’t stay loaded.

I don’t know if that same is true on a “stable” installation.

[Moderator caprea]

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@d_o, network-manager runs fine on antiX17 with stable repos,

but I see the same problem you described with testing repos

[Forum Admin dolphin_oracle]

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caprea wrote:

@d_o, network-manager runs fine on antiX17 with stable repos,

but I see the same problem you described with testing repos

thanks for the confirmation.

I think there is something wrong with the policykit packages in the testing/nosystemd repo. that’s a guess, but anything that looks to policykit probably won’t work. Including synaptic-pkexec (which antiX replaces with gksu synaptic but the script is still present). the synaptic-pkexec script also fails to launch synaptic. Since network-manager and synaptic both rely on policykit by default (synaptic gets by without it with gksu, but network-manager uses it internally), that points toward policykit.

That will be something to work on, but I suspect for those using the antiX testing repo now, many things might not work quite right and it may not be completely obvious. especially daemons. I don’t think any antiX apps require policykit and pkexec. Gparted would be an example, but like synaptic, ‘gparted-pkexec’ is replaced with ‘gksu gparted’ in antiX.

[Moderator caprea]

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Wanted to post it anyway, maybe gives you hints what is happening. This is from syslog after starting NM on the testing-repo-system

Feb 20 06:22:34 antix1 NetworkManager[20549]: <info>  [1550640154.5175] NetworkManager (version 1.14.4) is starting... (after a restart)
Feb 20 06:22:34 antix1 NetworkManager[20549]: <info>  [1550640154.5177] Read config: /etc/NetworkManager/NetworkManager.conf (lib: no-mac-addr-change.conf)
Feb 20 06:22:34 antix1 NetworkManager[20549]: <info>  [1550640154.5212] wifi-nl80211: (wlan1): using nl80211 for WiFi device control
Feb 20 06:22:34 antix1 NetworkManager[20549]: <error> [1550640154.5360] bus-manager: fatal failure to acquire D-Bus service "org.freedesktop.NetworkManager: GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.AccessDenied: Connection ":1.20" is not allowed to own the service "org.freedesktop.NetworkManager" due to security policies in the configuration file
Feb 20 06:22:34 antix1 NetworkManager[20549]: <info>  [1550640154.5362] exiting (error)

Sorry for highjacking your thread, Aldrich86, again: network-manager in stable (stretch) repos works without problems.

(THX to skidoo pointing out the picture is not antiX)
You get access to the options in the image you posted above when you type in terminal

nm-applet
This will create an applet in the taskbar. with left-mouse-click on the applet it get’s to this options, right-click gives other ones.
You can make the applet autostart at boot, see my post above.

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