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jdg18

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Registered: 2011-11-08

Posts: 3

Getting networking to work, and remembering last window manager

I've just switching to XFCE 4.8 after Debian testing switched to GNOME 3.  XFCE is *so* much nicer!

But I have a problem: I'm running network-manager, and under GNOME, it can quite happily connect to my wireless network.  However, under XFCE, it is complaining: Connection activation failed: Not authorized to control networking.  I have never seen such a complaint before, and cannot understand why GNOME is allowed to connect via NetworkManager but XFCE isn't.  Does anyone have any idea how to fix this?

Also, I've tried changing my window manager from metacity to xfwm4, but when I restart XFCE, I'm back in metacity again, even though I clicked the "remember my session" option in XFCE.

Any help will be much appreciated - these are sufficiently annoying that I don't know whether I'll switch if I can't figure out how to resolve them :-(

Thanks!

Julian

angstrom

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Registered: 2011-08-13

Posts: 267

Re: Getting networking to work, and remembering last window manager

For network-manager : I don't know.
For xfwm4 : make sure you have it in Setting Manager > Session and Startup > Session,  then Save the session
Also, remove/rename the folder ~/.cache

EDIT : googleing "metacity xfce" you will get this

Last edited by angstrom (2011-11-15 01:39:27)

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