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Subject: Re: NetworkManager instead of Wicd in =?utf-8?Q?=E2=80=98%desktop?=
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Date: Mon, 31 Jul 2017 10:12:38 +0200
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Jan Nieuwenhuizen <janneke@gnu.org> skribis:

> I would welcome some improvement here, or insight on my part.  Since I
> moved away from desktop environments, wicd has not not worked for me and
> I have been using ifconfig, wpa_supplicant and dhclient manually.  That
> has removed my dependency on something like NM and it's apparent
> inherent magic...but it's rather painful.

FWIW I use Wicd with =E2=80=98wicd-cli=E2=80=99 (GTK+).  It works OK, but W=
icd is not
very smart when it comes to reconnecting, detecting new networks, etc.

Ludo=E2=80=99.