Mate proxy settings does not work in Maya (mate-network-properties)
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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Linux Mint |
Confirmed
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Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
1)My system:
LinuxMint Maya 13 (MATE edition) also confirmed on LinuxMint 14 (Nadia) MATE as well.
Linux xxx 3.2.0-23-generic #36-Ubuntu SMP Tue Apr 10 20:39:51 UTC 2012 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
2) How to reproduce:
- Invoke MATE proxy settings from menu (or run mate-network-
- Set the proxy
3) What happened:
Proxy does not work. When on the network which is behind proxy, can not connect to the Internet (or any outer network behind proxy). Even the shell environment variables in the environment from where the mate-network-
4) What expected:
Internet should be accessible when behind proxy. System environment variables and related mconf/gconf records should be correctly set to proxy.
5) Problem happens everytime/always.
information type: | Public → Public Security |
information type: | Public Security → Public |
no longer affects: | ubuntu |
tags: | removed: mate |
The workaraound, that made upgrading packages working for me, was to enter proxy info in synaptic- >preferences- >network. >extended- >network did it. But its annoying to manually apply this to all internet required applications seperately.
In firefox, adding proxy info to settings-