FVWM: Vpn w/ Fvwm

[Dominik Vogt]

It's really not an fvwm problem, but this is driving me crazy.
The new box at work has some integrated environment using Gnome
("Openclient"). To create a Vpn connection you have to use
nm-applet from within a running gnome-session. I've tried to run
it on a plain X session, but then it's missing some bit of
configuration. At the moment to get a connection I run fvwm on
:0, then switch to initlevel 5 from there. This starts gdm on :1.
There I log in to a gnome-session, start the connection and switch
back to :0, leaving Gnome running in the background. (This works
only if nm-applet is run on :1 in the gnome-session, not if it's
run on :0.)

All this junk seems to be totally undocumented, so I have no idea
what nm-applet does under the hood. Either there's some secret
communication channel available only under gnome-session, or there
is a permission problem. Has anyone got this to work before?

Ciao

Dominik ^_^ ^_^

[E Frank Ball III]

Post by Dominik Vogt
It's really not an fvwm problem, but this is driving me crazy.
The new box at work has some integrated environment using Gnome
("Openclient"). To create a Vpn connection you have to use
nm-applet from within a running gnome-session. I've tried to run
it on a plain X session, but then it's missing some bit of
configuration. At the moment to get a connection I run fvwm on
:0, then switch to initlevel 5 from there. This starts gdm on :1.
There I log in to a gnome-session, start the connection and switch
back to :0, leaving Gnome running in the background. (This works
only if nm-applet is run on :1 in the gnome-session, not if it's
run on :0.)
All this junk seems to be totally undocumented, so I have no idea
what nm-applet does under the hood. Either there's some secret
communication channel available only under gnome-session, or there
is a permission problem. Has anyone got this to work before?
Ciao
Dominik ^_^ ^_^

I have used nm-applet with fvwm in the past, but it's been a while.
I started it initially with this:

+ I Test (Init) Schedule 2000 Exec nm-applet

And you can swallow it into a fvwm button with this:

*FvwmButtons (Swallow (NoClose, UseOld) "stalonetray" `Exec stalonetray & nm-applet`)

You need to install stalonetray. Then you can click on the icon to open
it. You could also try the wicd network manager.


E Frank Ball ***@frankb.us

[Claude Jager-Rubinson]

To create a Vpn connection you have to use nm-applet from within a
running gnome-session. I've tried to run it on a plain X session,
but then it's missing some bit of configuration.
All this junk seems to be totally undocumented, so I have no idea
what nm-applet does under the hood. Either there's some secret
communication channel available only under gnome-session, or there
is a permission problem. Has anyone got this to work before?

I may be misunderstanding your problem but in Debian, the
network-manager VPN plugins all have an additional *-gnome package
that must be installed. Network-Manager/OpenVPN won't work for me
without network-manager-openvpn-gnome being installed.

I don't run gnome-session at all.

Claude