Bug#988696: installation-reports: No network management in LXDE task

[Holger Wansing <hwansing@mailbox.org>]

Control: reassign -1 lxde


Hi,

Andreas Tille <tille@debian.org> wrote (Tue, 18 May 2021 10:37:12 +0200):
> I decided for the LXDE task (and unselected Gnome).  This ends up with
> no network management on the rebootet system.  My solution was wo
> plug-in the installation USB stick and install network-manager (+
> network-manager-gnome) and all its dependencies manually.  This problem
> is not only valid for this box.  I have installed three laptops in a row
> and its always the same.  My suggestion is to simply add network-manager
> to the LXDE task.

The LXDE metapackage has a Recommends on 
	connman-gtk | network-manager-gnome
so connman-gtk should be installed, when choosing the LXDE task.

And I verified that it gets installed (here).

I guess, your problem was, that connman-gtk is not being started automatically
when rebooting after installation, so you don't find anything related to
network configuration in the system tray (as you might be used to).
Starting connman-gtk from the menu works though (under 'LXDE menu' -> Settings ->
Connman Settings). 

So, as a possible way to get around this, LXDE people might want to think about
adding connman-gtk into "Autostart" under 'LXDE menu' -> Settings -> Default 
applications for LXSession, so that network management tool is automatically 
started and accessible to the user (and user are aware of such tool)...

Many people will most probably want to use network management tool on desktop 
systems.


Re-assigning to lxde people.

Holger



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