On Sat, Sep 18, 2010 at 10:12 AM, Daniel Rogers <dsrogers@xxxxxx> wrote: Hi Daniel, thanks for sharing. A couple questions below... > I've done exactly this, though it required quite a bit more magic. You > can't run from just any user session. It has to be a user session that > knows whatever environment is necessary to connect to an existing gconf > daemon. Otherwise the effects will not be persistent. > > The only way I was able to get it to work was to add: > > xml:readonly:$(HOME)/.nm/gconf > > To my users $HOME/.gconf.path.mandatory > > Then create a proxy configuration file as a gconftool dump: > > gconftool --dump /system/proxy > ~/.nm/system.proxy.xml > gconftool --dump /system/http_proxy > ~/.nm/system.http_proxy.xml > > Then when the network comes up set the properties in $HOME/.nm/gconf > without a running gconfd with gconftool --direct: > > gconftool --direct --config-source=xml:readwrite:$HOME/.nm/gconf --load= > $HOME/.nm/system.proxy.xml /system/proxy > gconftool --direct --config-source=xml:readwrite:$HOME/.nm/gconf --load= > $HOME/.nm/system.http_proxy.xml /system/http_proxy > #this part forces all running gconfd-2's to reload read-only data. > killall -q -HUP gconfd-2 Where do you run this script from? The nm dispatcher scripts are run as root, so the $HOME would expand to /root, rather than /home/<myuser>... > Setting .gconf.path.mandatory this way cases $HOME/.nm/gconf to take > priority over the normal read-write gconf database. This also has the > effect of making everything in /system/proxy and /system/http_proxy > read-only, effectively breaking gnome-network-settings. I combine this > with a per-location set of network manager scripts (using the network > manager uuid), to set my proxy based on location. Hrm, that is the sort of breakage I was trying to avoid by using the gconf tool. Why use gconf at all if breaks the GNOME tooling? It would be far easier to just write to /etc/environment and a similar user file that the .bashrc can source. I suppose this doesn't setup the gnome proxy for apps that use that... ugh... -- Darren Hart _______________________________________________ gnome-list mailing list gnome-list@xxxxxxxxx http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-list
