On Friday 21 June 2019 08:28:35 Dr. Nikolaus Klepp wrote: > Thanks William & Terry, > > I dumped wicd and friends and went back to tdenetworkmanager. Works like a > charm now :) > > Nik > For Nik, and anybody else who opts to go with tdenetworkmanager and eliminate wicd: If you purge, make sure you do it thus: sudo apt-get purge wicd wicd-* The asterisk will scoop up all of wicd's accomplices, but without the hyphen, purge gets rid of hundreds of other packages that you want to keep. So make sure to put in that hyphen! Bill > 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