Thanks William & Terry, I dumped wicd and friends and went back to tdenetworkmanager. Works like a charm now :) Nik Anno domini 2019 Thu, 20 Jun 15:14:31 -0700 William Morder via trinity-users scripsit: > > On Thursday 20 June 2019 13:25:52 Thierry de Coulon wrote: > > On Thursday 20 June 2019 22.00:06 Dr. Nikolaus Klepp wrote: > > > Hi all! > > > > > > Now that wicd decided to not be able to set up my wifi any more, I thoght > > > I might use network-manager + network-manager-tde. As I hve not had this > > > thig running for ~ 5 years, I just tried it out. But I did not get far, > > > the settings dialog did not allow me to save setting. So I ask: has > > > anybody used network-manager-tde in recent times and knows if it works? > > > > > > Nik > > > > Hi Nik, > > > > Your question led me to an interresting discovery: > > > > I have a NetworkManager Applet running in the system tray and it's working. > > It says it's "NetworkManager Applet 1.4.4". > > > > However, if I run Synaptic, network-manager-tde is not installed. > > network-manager and network-manager-gnome are installed. > > > > So I don't really know what to answer... > > > > Thierry > > Just my 2 cents' worth here: tdenetworkmanager (NOTE that the pkg name in apt > is different, network-manager-tde) depends on network-manager. The first is > tde, the second is (I think) Gnome or maybe now also the new and unimproved > KDE4/5/etc. You cannot run tdenetworkmanager without also having > network-manager installed. > > For most of 2018, I was trying to switch from Kubuntu to Debian, and now at > last to Devuan, trying to find a system that would more or less clone or at > least imitate my old Kubuntu Hardy 8.04.2 system (the only desktop that I had > ever loved, until now, that is, with the most recent TDE). > > Part of my problem was trying to find a networkmanager solution, so I > tried 'em all, and quickly narrowed it down to either tdenetworkmanager or > wicd). I still prefer a few aspects of wicd; e.g., the network in my building > has different access points, and for some reason wicd can choose the closest > or strongest signal (or I can force my preference manually), but > tdenetworkmanager cannot, and indeed constantly chooses a weaker signal, and > there is nowhere to change it as in wicd. However, when I was watching top > the other day, I noticed that gksu was always running; so just for kicks, I > killed gksu, and wicd crashed! I discovered that it wicd had been running in > the background, even though I had not started it up. So I uninstalled wicd, > and now my network is perhaps a little more stable - meaning, I don't keep > getting bumped offline so much. > > So if it were myself, I would say, Choose one or the other; they both work > fine, and I prefer one or the other at different moments; but > tdenetworkmanager requires no root privileges (or at least I don't see > anything root that's running which shouldn't be there). > > Bill > > > > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: trinity-users-unsubscribe@... > For additional commands, e-mail: trinity-users-help@... > Read list messages on the web archive: http://trinity-users.pearsoncomputing.net/ > Please remember not to top-post: http://trinity.pearsoncomputing.net/mailing_lists/#top-posting > > -- Please do not email me anything that you are not comfortable also sharing with the NSA, CIA ...