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How can I use NetworkManager with i3 in Fedora 23?

asked Nov 13 '15

Giordano gravatar image

I saw another post about starting nm-applet, however such command is not available in Fedora 23.

Same goes for gnome-settings-daemon. Probably the guides are referring to older versions of Gnome.

How can I solve this? Is it possible to have the network manager icon to quickly switch on/off VPNs and WiFi connections?

Thanks in advance :)

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Use "dnf provides <name>" when you know the command name but the package name is different :) The NAME can be any file (including binaries).

LordFazole gravatar imageLordFazole (Nov 19 '15)edit

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answered Nov 14 '15

i3convert gravatar image

I'm a Fedora 22 user, so things might have changed in the meantime.

  1. Are you sure there is no network-manager-applet package you could install. Try running dnf install network-manager-applet as root.

  2. What happens when you run (as root) dnf provides *nm-applet? It should provide the name of the package (if any) that contains the applet command.

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thank you, I don't know how I missed that. I had tried with `sudo dnf search` but I guess I searched with wrong terms.

Giordano gravatar imageGiordano (Nov 14 '15)edit
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answered Nov 13 '15

apoc gravatar image

Personally I use wicd and start it in tray using the .i3/config file:

exec --no-startup-id wicd-client --tray
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answered Nov 13 '15

Airblader gravatar image

There's nothing i3 specific here. If you want to use NetworkManager, use NetworkManager. If Fedora 23 doesn't have it, install and configure it. nm-applet should be a part of it.

You should check the Fedora docs on this.

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I have Gnome 3 installed with the NetworkManager applet. Unfortunately nm-applet is not available though: $ which nm-applet /usr/bin/which: no nm-applet in (/usr/lib64/qt-3.3/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin)

Giordano gravatar imageGiordano (Nov 13 '15)edit

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