On Sun, 22 May 2016, Britton Kerin wrote: > Trying to run nmcli fails from other window managers with dbus errors, > which it absolutely shouldn't do since network-manager is running. > Same with nm-connection-editor and wicd-client, they are all > apparently dependent on dbus now, and dbus doesn't appear to work > correctly without a gnome session going.
nmcli and nm-connection-editor will work just fine if you have dbus running for your session. Normally this works with dbus-launch --exit-with-session ~/.xsession or whatever you're actually doing. If DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS isn't set, then nm-connection-editor or anything else isn't going to work properly unless the newly launched session has permissions to talk to the master network-manager session. You can of course work around all of this by writing the NM connection bits manually, but that tends to get tedious. [I personally have it working just fine with i3wm, and I've previously had it working with awesome; you don't need gnome or gnome-session running at all.] -- Don Armstrong https://www.donarmstrong.com Love is... a complex sequence of neurochemical reactions that makes people behave like idiots. It's similar to intoxication, but the hangover's even worse. -- J. Jacques _Questionable Content_ #1039 http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1039
