On Fri, Feb 22, 2019 at 10:53 AM Thomas Haller <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Fri, 2019-02-22 at 09:31 -0600, Greg Oliver via networkmanager-list > wrote: > > On Fri, Feb 22, 2019 at 9:08 AM Thomas Haller <[email protected]> > > wrote: > > > On Fri, 2019-02-22 at 07:43 -0600, Greg Oliver via networkmanager- > > > list > > > wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > > > > > Is there some way to get nm-applet to show unplugged (ethernet > > > > dongles) devices profiles in it's menu at all times? All of my > > > > recent laptops have been thunderbolt usb-c only and my wired > > > ethernet > > > > adapters have all been one of the variants, but until I plug them > > > in, > > > > I cannot even see my profiles from the GUI anywhere. Is there > > > some > > > > way to change this behavior? > > > > > > > > Running Fedora (29). > > > > > > > > > > > > > Hi, > > > > > > > > > nm-applet is a tool (GUI in the system tray bar) to show devices, > > > which > > > profiles are currently active, and to activate/deactivate profiles > > > on > > > devices. > > > > > > Consequently, you don't see profiles that have no suitable device > > > at > > > the moment. > > > > > > Use nm-connection-editor for that, which only focuses on > > > creating/modifing/deleting profiles. > > > > > > > > > In nm-applet, you can also right click and select "Edit > > > Connections...", which spawns nm-connection-editor -- though, I > > > think > > > right-click does not work if nm-applet uses libappindicator. > > > Regardless > > > of that, you can always start nm-connection-editor manually, the > > > effect > > > is the same. > > > > > > > > > Does that work? > > > > Perfect - exactly what I needed! > > > > Thanks Thomas - I have been looking through the config files and > > nmcli to flip some switch without luck :) > > > > I sure wish that the Gnome folks would not have removed the > > bonding/vlan/connection stuff from Settings, and I always seem to > > forget about nm-connection-editor :-/ > > Hi, > > > your last remark makes me wonder whether you are using Gnome3. > > Note that gnome-shell in Gnome3 itself has a NetworkManager > integration. That is similar in purpose and appearance to nm-applet. > But nm-applet is a separate application. > > Likewise, Gnome3's control-center has a built-in connection-editor. > That's not the same as nm-connection-editor. While gnome-control- > center's NetworkManager GUI does not support bonding/vlan, nm- > connection-editor does. > > Just to clear that up -- it is indeed confusing. Use whatever GUI suits > you. Yes - gnome3 - just ranting towards it in case some of their developers read this list :) They took all that stuff out quite a while ago - which is fine - I know how to fire up the native NM app/applet. Thanks again! > > > best, > Thomas >
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