KNetworkManager and nm-applet both start if gnome and kde are installed

[Mario Limonciello]

Binary package hint: knetworkmanager

Using the latest updates as of oct 9th,

network-manager-kde: (1:0.7svn864988-0ubuntu1)
network-manager-gnome: (0.7~~svn20081004t082522-0ubuntu1)
network-manager: (0.7~~svn20081004t225044-0ubuntu1)

Both KDE's network manager utility and GNOME's will start up in either environment. The expectation is that the KDE one only starts in KDE, and the gnome one only starts in GNOME.

[Benjamin Kay (benkay)]

Don't know under which package to mark this as confirmed, but I definitely have the same problem with the October 28 daily-live of Intrepid.

[Alex (a-maier)]

I can confirm this bug to the final version of Ubuntu 8.10 and Kubuntu 8.10.

[Alexander Sack (asac)]

nm-applet needs to constraint .desktop file to autostart for gnome and xfce by default

[Alexander Sack (asac)]

similar fix is required for knetworkmanager

[Alexander Sack (asac)]

fwiw, those .desktop files are shipped in /etc/xdg/autostart/ ... maybe confirm manually.

[tony.damato (whatzgnu)]

Well, I've got three installations which this affects - all three were upgrades from 8.04 to 8.10 and kubuntu-desktop added. Here's what I did to fix it (at least, it works for me):

* Edited /etc/xdg/autostart/knetworkmanager-autostart.desktop and added the following line:

OnlyShowIn=KDE;

* Edited /etc/xdg/autostart/nm-applet.desktop and added the following line:

OnlyShowIn=GNOME;XFCE;

* Issued "sudo dpkg-reconfigure gdm" to switch to gdm, rebooted, logged in as GNOME session, and then only nm-applet appeared.

* Issued "sudo dpkg-reconfigure gdm" to switch to kdm, rebooted, logged in as KDE session, and then only KNetworkManager appeared.

I didn't test w/ XFCE, but I'm sure it'll work there as well. As always, your mileage may vary...