network-manager-applet-1.20.0

Introduction to NetworkManager Applet

The NetworkManager Applet provides a tool and a panel applet used to configure wired and wireless network connections through GUI. It's designed for use with any desktop environment that uses GTK+, such as Xfce and LXDE.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-10.1 platform.

Package Information

NetworkManager Applet Dependencies

Required

GTK+-3.24.28, libnma-1.8.30, libnotify-0.7.9, and libsecret-0.20.4

Recommended

Required (Runtime)

Since this package uses Polkit-0.118 for authorization, one Polkit Authentication Agent should be running when the functionality of this package is used.

Optional

gnome-bluetooth-3.34.5, jansson-2.13.1, and libindicator

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/network-manager-applet

Installation of NetworkManager Applet

Install NetworkManager Applet by running the following commands:

mkdir build &&
cd    build &&

meson --prefix=/usr     \
      -Dappindicator=no \
      -Dselinux=false   \
      -Dteam=false      .. &&
ninja

To test the results, issue: ninja test.

Now, as the root user:

ninja install

Command Explanations

-Dappindicator=no: This switch disables AppIndicator support in network-manager-applet because it requires libindicator, which is not in BLFS. The build will fail without this option.

-Dteam=false: This switch disables the team configuration editor since it requires jansson-2.13.1. If you have Jansson installed, remove this option or set it to "true".

-Dselinux=false: This switch forcibly disables SELinux support since it is not currently in BLFS and the build will fail without it.

-Dwwan=false: This switch disables WWAN support. Use this if you do not have ModemManager-1.16.2 installed.

Contents

Installed Programs: nm-applet and nm-connection-editor
Installed Libraries: None
Installed Directories: None

Short Descriptions

nm-connection-editor

allows users to view and edit network connection settings

Last updated on 2021-02-24 13:35:31 -0600