HOWTO: Use Gnome Network Manager in other DE

“As of 10.04 beta I have begun using the KDE desktop
environment. I really like many of the things KDE has to offer,
however KDE’s network manager applet (knetworkmanager) still is
lacking compared to Gnome’s applet. After installing the
network-manager-gnome and manually launching it under KDE it worked
great! The only issue I had was that when I rebooted I had to
manually relaunch it and then even after I had added it to my
startup programs it still failed to store my passwords (even though
I had the gnome-keyring installed).

“The following are the steps I have taken to have the Gnome
nm-applet auto load at KDE’s startup and have it work with the
gnome-keyring.”

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