Bugzilla – Bug 116799
Gnome menu: network selector not executable
Last modified: 2005-09-13 16:45:52 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.
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.
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...
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.