kei...@strucktower.com wrote: >Sometime back I moved one of my laptops from using Gnome to using a wm (i3 >at present). I have been slowly trying to learn the various functions that >the Gnome DE does in the background (hides from the user) so that I can >replace the Gnome-related-software to software which is desktop >independent.
Network Manager per se is not connected to Gnome and runs just fine with XFCE, KDE and even from the command line (you will have to create connections manually, though). >I thought I could simply invoke > >$sudo /etc/init.d/NetworkManager stop Did you try # /etc/init.d/network-manager stop ? – The file /etc/init.d/NetworkManager isn’t even existing on my system. Best regards, Claudius -- I'd horsewhip you if I had a horse. -- Groucho Marx Please use GPG: ECB0C2C7 4A4C4046 446ADF86 C08112E5 D72CDBA4 http://chubig.net/ http://nightfall.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20120212212210.1aaed...@ares.home.chubig.net