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

You can configure your proxy settings in ~/.atom/.apmrc (or Atom\resources\app\apm\node_modules\atom-package-manager\.apmrc in Windows). Per the apm README:

If you are using a proxy you can configure apm to use it by setting the https-proxy config in your ~/.atom/.apmrc file like so:

https-proxy = https://9.0.2.1:0