Re: NetworkManager instead of Wicd in ???%desktop-services????

[Pjotr Prins]

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.