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 --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: trinity-users-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx For additional commands, e-mail: trinity-users-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Read list messages on the web archive: http://trinity-users.pearsoncomputing.net/ Please remember not to top-post: http://trinity.pearsoncomputing.net/mailing_lists/#top-posting
