Hi! I'm a Gentoo user, running the Sabayon Linux distro. I just recently installed KDE 4.1 on my laptop, and I can't seem to get knetworkmanager to run as user. I get

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$ knetworkmanager
bash: knetworkmanager: command not found

and

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$ /usr/kde/3.5/bin/knetworkmanager
No protocol specified
kdeinit: Can't connect to the X Server.
kdeinit: Might not terminate at end of session.
No protocol specified
kded: cannot connect to X server :0.0
DCOP aborting call from 'anonymous-4282' to 'kded'
kded: ERROR: Communication problem with kded, it probably crashed.
No protocol specified
knetworkmanager: cannot connect to X server :0.0
DCOP aborting call from 'anonymous-4273' to 'knetworkmanager'
ERROR: Communication problem with knetworkmanager, it probably crashed.

It runs as root though. Any idea how to get knetworkmanager to run as user? It'd be awful helpful. Thanks!

Could you check for a damaged or non user owned KNetworkManager configuration file under $KDEHOME? ( ~/.kde normally, configuration file will be under share/config, called knetworkmanagerrc )

bcooksley wrote:Could you check for a damaged or non user owned KNetworkManager configuration file under $KDEHOME? ( ~/.kde normally, configuration file will be under share/config, called knetworkmanagerrc )

~/.kde3.5/share/config/knetworkmanagerrc:

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[General]
Version=0.2.2

[Network_ZhOZgz0mUeZQV0he]
ESSID=UDwireless
Encryption=none
HardwareAddresses=00:1A:E3:7B:F6:80,00:1A:E3:D0:06:60,00:1A:E3:D0:09:D0,00:15:FA:86:C3:C0
Timestamp=2009,1,5,0,1,26
Trusted=true

[Network_jmq4J7qJkUr514Oj]
Cipher=2
ESSID=Benze
Encryption=WEP
HardwareAddresses=00:15:E9:7A:2F:BE
Timestamp=2008,12,31,14,27,17
Trusted=true
WEPMethod=OpenSystem
WEPType=ASCII

[Secret_Benze]
password=*****

where ***** is my password.
~/.kde points to ~/.kde3.5, and there is no knetworkmanagerrc located within ~/.kde4.1

Any ideas? Knetworkmanager works just fine in kde 3.5.

Try creating a wrapper script to change environment variables temporarily for knetworkmanager.

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export PATH=/usr/kde/3.5/bin:$PATH
export XDG_DATA_DIRS=/usr/kde/3.5/share:$XDG_DATA_DIRS
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/kde/4.5/lib:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH
export QTDIR=/path/to/qt/3/
export KDEDIR=/usr/kde/3.5
export KDEDIRS=$KDEDIR
knetworkmanager