Not able to connect to atom.io for themes and packages

Question

I believe my work proxy is preventing me from being able to add themes and packages to Atom. From the preferences menu, I get:

Fetching featured packages and themes fai

Answer 1

For Windows you can easily configure the https-proxy via command line:

amd config set https-proxy https://9.0.2.1:0

It should be stored under C:\Users\...\.apm in file .apmrc

See userconfig with command

amd config list