KUbuntu Proxy Configuration – Part II

Well after all setting the http_proxy and ftp_proxy environment variables on the /etc/environement file is not really enough because of one KDE small detail… If on the KDE system settings you choose Proxy configuration and then you choose the option “Use the Preset proxy environement variables” you have a NO PROXY field where IP addresses or hostnames are put to circunvent the proxy.

Well it doesn’t work… If you fill it with something when opening again the properties, they are empty.

So the solution is really still to use the environement variables and on KDE use the “Manually specify the proxy settings” where the machines that do not need Proxy can be added.

Kubuntu Proxy configuration

Well Adept has trouble working with the KDE proxy configuration when setting it up explicity, by other other words when you define the proxy by setting up the values on Manually specify proxy settings.

Because it doesn’t work quite well, what I’ve done was the following:

sudo bash

and edit the file /etc/environment

I added the following lines:

export http_proxy=http://10.0.0.1:8080

export ftp_proxy=http://10.0.0.2:8080

Saved the file and executed the following command:

source /etc/environment

After this I went to KDE proxy settings and told it to use “Use preset proxy environment variables”

Well it works now…

Kubuntu behind a proxy server

I’m moving my work computer to Kubuntu, and hit a snag right away… My corporate network has, of course, a proxy server to access the internet. Well setting up on the Network preferences of KDE the network proxy doesn’t work for alot, and I mean alot, of applications, like Adept Manager, Kopet at least. (Well it seems also that kopet doesn’t work through proxys, so I’m using pidgin, and that one has it’s own proxy configuration)

I had to go to a shell session, set up the http_proxy and ftp_proxy variables and start up those applications through command line. C’mon guys! Can we get at least this so simple issue to work????