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

I am working behind a proxy server and spent about half a day on this issue, setting https_proxy as well as http_proxy didn't make a difference.

What did it for me was setting the proxy from the cmd line like so:

apm config set proxy http://myproxyaddress:port

I still can't install packages through Atom's gui, but doing it through the cmd line works fine. That I'll take.

I later realised I could've switched to the wifi and got it to work immediately...