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