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Re: trying to use wireless not from gnome... what's the incantation?



On Mon, 2016-05-23 at 12:10 +0200, Adam Borowski wrote:
> On Mon, May 23, 2016 at 11:39:06AM +0200, Abou Al Montacir wrote:
> > 
> > On Mon, 2016-05-23 at 08:28 +0200, Adam Borowski wrote:
> > > 
> > > > 
> > > > 
> > > > I'm posting here both in hope of a solution, and because this seems
> > > > like a bug.  How come this only works from gnome?  nmcli in particular
> > > > looks like it's trying to be a general-purpose solution, but somehow
> > > > it too only works from gnome.
> > > NM is closely tied to Gnome so regressions in non-Gnome use aren't
> > > surprising.
> > Login in Gnome once, activate wifi and ask that the connection should be used by
> > all users.
> > Then NM will save the password some were so that it connect without user login.
> Right... so you say non-Gnome users should keep a Gnome installation just to
> enter the wifi password, and log out+log in to Gnome whenever they visit a
> new place (which on a laptop means, quite often) then log out+log in back to
> their regular environment?  I think I'll pass.
[...]

You already have passed.  Please stop spreading FUD about a program you
don't use and don't really know the state of.

Ben.

-- 
Ben Hutchings
You can't have everything.  Where would you put it?

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