Re: HELP: Separate GNOME configurations for home and workplace?
On Fri, Apr 27, 2007 at 09:24:26PM +0530, Kushal Kumaran wrote:
> On 4/27/07, Liam O'Toole <liam.p.otoole@gmail.com> wrote:
> >On Thu, 26 Apr 2007 20:33:35 +0100
> >Julian Gilbey <jdg@polya.uklinux.net> wrote:
> >
> >> I use my laptop in two locations, one which has an HTTP proxy (work),
> >> the other which doesn't (home). Is there an easy way to set up GNOME
> >> to understand multiple locations which are easy to switch between, or
> >> do I have to do everything manually?
> >
> >I don't know of a dedicated tool for the purpose, but you could script
> >it yourself without too much difficulty. If you set the variable
> >$USE_HTTP_PROXY to 'true' or 'false' as appropriate, then you would
> >invoke:
> >
> > /usr/bin/gconftool --set /system/http_proxy/use_http_proxy \
> > --type boolean $USE_HTTP_PROXY
> > [...]
>
> With iceweasel, I like to use the "automatic proxy configuration" and
> make it point to a URL that will generate the appropriate
> autoconfiguration script.
>
> http://wp.netscape.com/eng/mozilla/2.0/relnotes/demo/proxy-live.html
> describes what must be present at the autoconfig URL.
>
Thanks for all the advice - much appreciated!
Julian
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