Bug 116799

Summary: Gnome menu: network selector not executable
Product: [openSUSE] SUSE LINUX 10.0 Reporter: Katarina Machalkova <kmachalkova>
Component: GNOMEAssignee: E-mail List <gnome-bugs>
Status: RESOLVED INVALID QA Contact: E-mail List <qa-bugs>
Severity: Normal    
Priority: P5 - None    
Version: RC 1   
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Hardware: i686   
OS: All   
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Description Katarina Machalkova 2005-09-13 15:52:21 UTC 
When trying to run Network Selector from Applications menu in GNOME
(Applications -> Internet -> Administration -> Network Selector) nothing
happens. I mean, no window appears, no error message pops up, even no change in
ps. As if this menu entry did not point to any application. Maybe I just don't
have it installed, but it shouldn't be in menu then.
Comment 1 Mark Gordon 2005-09-13 15:59:51 UTC 
Is "netapplet" running?

Do you have an icon in your notification area that resembles two monitors, one
behind another? I can attach a screenshot if need be.
Comment 2 Katarina Machalkova 2005-09-13 16:35:18 UTC 
Yes, netapplet is running: 

bubli@felix:~> ps ax | grep netapplet
 5553 ?        S      0:00 netapplet

If the icon you mentioned is the one with "ethernet connection" label, then yes,
I have in my panel. I can attach listing of my `ps` if that will be of any help...
Comment 3 Mark Gordon 2005-09-13 16:45:52 UTC 
Yes, that's just a netapplet launcher.

Here's why it does "nothing": netapplet, on launch, checks whether another
instance is already running.  If there's already a netapplet instance running,
the second one is superfluous, and it dies.  That's considered a feature,
especially in combination netapplet being hard-coded into the session and with
session management; this is done largely to keep a second netapplet from
starting from a saved session.

To see this menu item actually *do* something, you should first kill netapplet.
 Then the menu item will restart netapplet.  That's pretty much its sole purpose.

Since this is working as intended (which I just confirmed myself, by performing
the steps above), I'm closing this as INVALID.