derek:b3studios

I’m been really getting into Dreamlinux, it appears to be a distro with pretty much everything I need. Like I said in my previous post, the only downside is that the system isn’t always up to date as well as it should be. With that said, Dreamlinux doesn’t come preinstalled with an easy network manager. Nore has the Dreamlinux team made the current network manager much easier to use. The problem is most related to laptop users. Laptop users, need an easy way to scan wireless networks, and pick an available one. I wrote a quick mini tutorial at the Dreamlinux Wiki about it.

But now, I have a new gripe. Engage Panel dumps the sys tray when it recycles, I hate this, because guess what, network-manager-gnome doesn’t automatically recycle it nm-applet! In other words, edit the Engage Dock using Engage Admin, and lose system tray icons, and need to restart the applet.

I found a quick way around that, and am providing my modified Engage Admin code. Basically how this works, is you replace the current Engage Admin with my modified one (or you can install them side by side, there are only 2 line additions), install a sh script to your home directory, enter the commands to run after recycle in the sh script. And now, when you recycle the Engage Dock, it will also run the commands in the sh file, easy - no more manually reloading nm-applet! Of course you can follow the small guide here, but I’ll also be adding it to the Dreamlinux Wiki .

Just follow these codes in your terminal window:


cd /usr/local/bin
sudo mv engage_admin.rb engage_admin.rb.bak