Forgot to mentioned it here ..... SOLVED !!! Yey. NetworkManager 1.0.0 released! This package solves this long outstanding problem for past few months(!!). I am quite surprised that being it released late December it is still not available as updates for 13.2 and Tumbleweed. (For me it is Tumbleweed) I used the following repo to updated the networkmanager package and all the required for me (incl. networkmanager-openvpn) - http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/X0F:/branches:/network/ Once added via Software Manager switch to using this repo and update all that system states, incl. dependencies/removals. No more need to manually connect via CLI everytime.