network manager nm-applet alternative for the GNOMEless?

[Dick Davies]

On 21/04/06, Andrew Conkling <andrew.conkling at gmail.com> wrote:
> This should be directed to the ubuntu-users list.
>
> On 4/21/06, Dick Davies <rasputnik at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Anyone know of a way to communicate with network-manager from
> > a non-gnome/kde desktop?
>
> Off the top of my head, I think that the nm-applet program runs from
> the system tray, so it makes sense to me that it would work outside of
> GNOME.  I think it uses the keyring for its password storage (at least
> until 0.7, IIRC), so you may still need that.

Yeah, that seems to work great - added

  gnome-keyring-daemon&
  nm-applet&

to ~/.fluxbox/startup and everything seems peachy.
Thanks a lot!

(appreciate other suggestions of alternatives too,
but I don't know anything else that can do WPA2 yet).

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