From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Pjotr Prins Subject: Re: NetworkManager instead of Wicd in ???%desktop-services???? Date: Sun, 30 Jul 2017 20:39:15 +0200 Message-ID: <20170730183915.GA29085@thebird.nl> References: <87iniaf06l.fsf@gnu.org> <87a83m0x7g.fsf@gnu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:43998) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dbt85-00063b-FD for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 30 Jul 2017 14:39:54 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dbt7z-0007sC-5h for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 30 Jul 2017 14:39:53 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <87a83m0x7g.fsf@gnu.org> List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "Guix-devel" To: Jan Nieuwenhuizen Cc: guix-devel On Sun, Jul 30, 2017 at 05:18:59PM +0200, Jan Nieuwenhuizen wrote: > Ludovic Court??s writes: > > > Now, as someone who doesn???t use GNOME, I wonder if NM would work well > > for me. Last time I tried it???s CLI was too low-level to be usable, and > > I don???t remember seeing a curses interface. Suggestions? > > 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. I actually prefer doing it this way. wpa_supplicant with multiple config files is the way when you travel a lot. No confusion between phone tethering, eduroam and multiple wifi networks. Until these NM tools start offering profiles... And general connecting is faster too. Pj.