On Wed, Jul 04, 2018 at 02:15:46AM -0700, Jimmy Johnson wrote: [cut]
> > > > I used wicd for several years, and I had always to swear against the > > gods of three or four religions to have it do what I wanted. The > > hardest thing was to convince wicd that I wanted a *specific* wi-fi > > connection among the several available: it kept choosing what it > > preferred, probably on the basis of "signal strength", and kept > > disconnecting and reconecting every time somebody entered the room or > > moved a chair. I had to manually disable the connections I didn't want > > to use, then manually re-enable them. > > > That sounds like network manager was installed at the time and not a wicd > problem, wicd gets blamed because you can see it in your tray, while NM is > in the background messing with your connection. > > I may be wrong but I don't think network manager is good or helpful in any > way, causes way to many problems and confusion for the average user. > I don't know about you, but I always know exactly, at any point in time, what software is installed in my system. And I am 100% sure that network-manager has *never* been installed in any of the machines I have administered or used in the last 20 years :) So the fault was genuinely due to wicd, and my swearing was more than justified ;) P.S.: there is no tray at all in xmonad... HND KatolaZ -- [ ~.,_ Enzo Nicosia aka KatolaZ - Devuan -- Freaknet Medialab ] [ "+. katolaz [at] freaknet.org --- katolaz [at] yahoo.it ] [ @) http://kalos.mine.nu --- Devuan GNU + Linux User ] [ @@) http://maths.qmul.ac.uk/~vnicosia -- GPG: 0B5F062F ] [ (@@@) Twitter: @KatolaZ - skype: katolaz -- github: KatolaZ ]
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