Re: [trinity-users] network-manager-tde ?

On Thursday 20 June 2019 13:25:52 Thierry de Coulon wrote: 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