Hello,

since upgrading to KDE 4.5 RC2 (fedora 13) the network manager has missing entries. Looks like this:
Tried different themes, but no difference. How can I fix this and/or should I file a bug report?

Thanks!

This is because of the so called "dbusmenu", which allows this menu to be display through Qt in KDE and through Gtk in Gnome: http://lists.kde.org/?l=kde-core-devel& ... 520295&w=2. There's a bug, so KNetworkmanager doesn't work right here: http://lists.kde.org/?l=kde-core-devel& ... 922398&w=2.
And maybe this is the regarding bug report (but I am not sure): https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=243987

I don't know if it is possible to fix it, you can use the nm-applet of Gnome or cnetworkmanager in Konsole.

Oh well...
Thanks a lot for the info!

Also found more info in the thread you referenced and a potential patch, but apparently KNetworkManager is being deprecated anyway:

http://lists.kde.org/?l=kde-core-devel& ... 428563&w=2
http://lists.kde.org/?l=kde-core-devel& ... 613236&w=2
http://lists.kde.org/?l=kde-core-devel& ... 021646&w=2

This can be fixed quite easily, by using the Network Management applet instead. You may need to run the following command before it functions however:

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qdbus org.kde.kded /kded loadModule networkmanagement

Make sure that KNetworkManager is not running when you run that command. It can be safely added as an Autostart item if needed.

yes, nm-applet works fine. This also seems to have fixed the somewhat weird white background in the icon list. I think I used nm-applet before and only switched to knetworkmanager when setting up a connection via mobile phone dongle because that seemed easier with knetworkmanager, but I can't quite recall and am not using the dongle at the moment. Anyway, everything seems to work reasonably well for now


Thanks for the help!
Ben

So I'm having the same problem with KNetworkManager, so I installed kde-plasma-networkmanagement.

How do I disable KNetworkManager from running at startup?
How exactly do I add the qdbus command so it runs at startup? Should I create a script so that it runs pre-KDE, or is it ok as a Program item?

Thanks.

The qdbus command must run as a Program item ( during KDE startup, definitely not Pre-KDE )

You can disable KNetworkManager from autostarting by creating "kde4-knetworkmanager-autostart.desktop" in ~/.config/autostart with the following:

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[Desktop Entry]                                                                       
Hidden=true