Adding NetworkManager just for the icon

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October
2012

Adding NetworkManager just for the icon

If the end user wishes to use Slax on a computer which is connected to network (my rough estimate is 99.9% of users), then he she absolutely needs a state icon in system tray. While it seems straightforward, it required me to find out what KDE desktop actually needs to provide such icon.

During LinuxDays conference last week, I was (mostly accidentally) present on a talk (in English) with some of the OpenSUSE developers. They've developed a thing called Network Manager. Honestly, I didn't actually get the main idea why a daemon is need at all to manage network connections since in my opinion everybody is just connected once, but it seems others understand it better and KDE heavily depends on it. Actually it provides network configuration interface only if NetworkManager is installed (and running!).

OK, so be it.

Here is the actual icon screenshot. You can see there (in the order): kmix, krandrtray, networkmanagement. Clock. :)

User comments

em 2012-10-31 23:07

Good choice and good news! Thanx:)

ralcocer 2012-11-01 00:15

I am connected to a network 24/7 but it's a wireless network in the slax-7 I downloaded the wlan0 is recognized but there is no network manager, I also have managed to use the Porteus modules with slax but there in so mount unmout script, do you have a firefox module?

whiterbt 2012-11-07 07:23

sorry but I love kde network manager so much !

I have so many VPN configurations, hidden wifi and static eth0 configuration... all tuned into network manager ( system wide for somes, user conf for the secrets conf like vpn ).

It is so pain less to switch from one to another !!
The kde version is far better than the gnome one to !

Thanks a lot, I'm downloading your new slax 7 just to try ( I am a debian user )

Thank you !

Morteza 2023-02-08 15:10

Hi slax user,

I'm using Slax because it's lightweight and works well in old PC.
But there is something that it doesn't have, it can't connect to USB tethering.
While my old PC doesn't have wifi yet.
So I just figured it out, download manually the package of network-manager from debian.
You know the dependencies are so many, that's a tiresome of downloading, you know.

So, I will really be grateful if you add network-manager package to the next Slax.

Regards

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