pc-netmanager in xfce4

[Martian]

Hi

I am new to PC-BSD, but very keen on and would like to give it a good try and eventually help with testing or whatever I manage to help.

For now I need some help.

My choice for desktop environment is xfce4, because I am well familiar with and I prefer it than KDE. I already noticed that BSD is actually more comfortable using qt based environment. Anyway lets point to the main reason I opened this thread.

I want to try the pc-netmanager / pc-nettray, but I can't make it to work from xfce4. For now I installed it via pkg_add and tried to start it in different ways:

1. pc-netmanager showed me that needs to be run by root. So I tired:

[martian@pcbsd-2794] ~> pc-su pc-netmanager
This libgtop was compiled on FreeBSD 9.0-RC3 i386
If you see strange problems caused by it,
you should recompile libgtop and dependent applications
Qt: Session management error: Authentication Rejected, reason : None of the authentication protocols specified are supported and host-based authentication failed
Locale: "en"
/usr/local/bin/pc-netmanager: Undefined symbol "_ZN5Utils16getConfFileValueE7QStringS0_i"LibG Top-Server: pid 24427 received eof.

2. From different sources I understood that most likely kdesu would help. So I tried:

[martian@pcbsd-2794] ~> kdesu
kdesu: Command not found.
[martian@pcbsd-2794] ~> which kdesu
kdesu: Command not found.
Strange, because if I do:
[martian@pcbsd-2794] ~> set autolist
[martian@pcbsd-2794] ~> kde (hitting tab here)
kde4-config kded4 kdeinit4 kdeinit4_shutdown kdeinit4_wrapper kdestroy kdesu
I don't know where this kdesu it comes from?

3. Anyway I tried different approach and almost worked

[martian@pcbsd-2794] ~> pc-su /usr/local/kde4/bin/kdeinit4_wrapper pc-netmanager
This libgtop was compiled on FreeBSD 9.0-RC3 i386
If you see strange problems caused by it,
you should recompile libgtop and dependent applications
Launched ok, pid = 25171
LibGTop-Server: pid 25167 received eof.
[martian@pcbsd-2794] ~> ps aux | grep 25171
martian 25191 0.0 0.1 9748 1356 0 S+ 12:20AM 0:00.00 grep 25171

4. pc-nettray has almost the same behavior:

[martian@pcbsd-2794] ~> pc-nettray
Locale: "en"
[martian@pcbsd-2794] ~> pc-su pc-nettray
This libgtop was compiled on FreeBSD 9.0-RC3 i386
If you see strange problems caused by it,
you should recompile libgtop and dependent applications
Qt: Session management error: Authentication Rejected, reason : None of the authentication protocols specified are supported and host-based authentication failed
Locale: "en"
LibGTop-Server: pid 25327 received eof.

5. Later I found an icon for "Network Configuration" in pc-controlpanel, but it's not starting as well. Running Control Panel from the console and clicking over the Network Configuration icon shows me:

[martian@pcbsd-2794] ~> pc-controlpanel
QMetaObject::connectSlotsByName: No matching signal for on_itemActivated(QListWidgetItem*)
Locale: "en"
/usr/local/bin/pc-netmanager: Undefined symbol "_ZN5Utils16getConfFileValueE7QStringS0_i"

... but nothing show up.

I wonder is it necessary to install full KDE? I would prefer to use XFce anyway

Any help would be appreciated!

P.S. Sorry, I mixed up the forum. Please move this thread to XFCE related forum!

Cheers,
Martin

[drulavigne]

Hmm, not sure what pkg_adding the netmanager did to the system (e.g. if it overwrote the one that came with the operating system), but that would explain the lib errors.

There should be a control panel icon on the desktop which contains the Network configuration tool. Control Panel is available on any desktop (e.g. you don't need KDE for it). Does that networking tool work for you or is it giving errors as well (e.g. was it overwritten by the pkg_add)?

[Martian]

There should be a control panel icon on the desktop which contains the Network configuration tool. Control Panel is available on any desktop (e.g. you don't need KDE for it). Does that networking tool work for you or is it giving errors as well (e.g. was it overwritten by the pkg_add)?

May be you missed to read point 5 from my post. Actually the icon was missing, before I installed pc-netmanager. It wasn't installed from the fresh installation. May be, because during installation I removed KDE and choose only XFCE to be installed?

[drulavigne]

No, control panel and all of its icons are part of the OS, regardless of window manager and should "just work" from any window manager.

Are you running an RC version of 9, or release? Were the libgtop errors before or after you installed using pkg_add? If after, it sounds like it overwrote some libs. Is this a brand new install that you can reinstall?

[Martian]

It was a brand new installation (with only xfce installed no KDE), but I remember when I was reviewing the "Control Panel" for the first time the "System Manager" was working. Later when I installed pc-netmanager (because it wasn't installed by the installer) then found out that both are not working with the same problem. So it could be, because of libgtop (I used pkg_add).

At the end I decided to reinstall and this time I chose both KDE and XFCE intruded and there is no problem now. If someone is doing scratch installation with only XFCE installed can try to reproduce what happened to me.

P.S. It was a release version. And as stated I think that error starte after I installed pc-netmanager with pkg_add.

[carles1988]

Any excellent word on this, guys? Seems like that everyone are not sure on threads-


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[kmoore134]

The version from ports is super-old, and I'm sure wont work. We had
better work on fixing the existing one.

Try this:

sudo /usr/local/bin/pc-netmanager

Does it throw any errors?

[kmoore134]

pc-netmanager is already apart of the base system, and shouldn't be
installed via ports / packages. The pkg_add version was probably
compiled with old version of QT which causes this problem.

You may need to rebuild it via source:

% svn co svn://svn.pcbsd.org/pcbsd/current/src-qt4/pc-netmanager
pc-netmanager
% cd pc-netmanager
% qmake-qt4
% sudo make install

That should get it working for you.