I have disabled slim and lightdm, using startx instead. Almost everything works, except I cannot control the network connections with NetworkManager when logged in as the non-root user. Enable Networking and Enable Wifi are grayed out. If I go to Edit Connections and select either connection, the Edit button is grayed out. I have tested using the root user, which does work.
I wrote a polkit rule that is supposed to resolve this, but it does not. I created file /etc/polkit-1/rules.d/50-org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.rules containing:
polkit.addRule(function(action, subject) {
if (action.id.indexOf("org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.") == 0 && subject.isInGroup("netdev")) {
return polkit.Result.YES;
}
});
My userid is a member of group netdev. My system is Debian Sid and my DE is LXDE. My ~/.xinitrc contains:
exec ck-launch-session dbus-launch /usr/bin/startlxde
I have been fighting with this almost all day. Can anyone explain what I am doing incorrectly?
Best Answer
I also had this issue after upgrading to wheezy. After some searching I created a bug report that resulted in the following section in the wheezy release notes:
So I guess you will have to switch your DM.