Comments on: wicd is good stuff

By: I’ve been saying this for awhile « Rusty Shackleford's Library Card

I’ve been saying this for awhile « Rusty Shackleford's Library Card — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 21:36:30 +0000

[...] been saying this for awhile But Wicd is good stuff. Anyone know why the buntu’s are so in love with Network Manager? And, why does the LXDE team [...]

By: Mark

Mark — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 12:22:06 +0000

!net?

Is Arch short for “Archimedes”?

By: Links 7/3/2010: Deutsche Börse and Red Hat | Boycott Novell

Links 7/3/2010: Deutsche Börse and Red Hat | Boycott Novell — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 00:37:23 +0000

[...] wicd is good stuff The other thing I wanted to mention about my brief interlude with Arch a day ago, was my surprise at using wicd. Ordinarily I wouldn’t bother messing with utilities or daemons that manage network connections. I rarely see the need when I can hand-edit the rc.conf file more quickly and easily than working my way through a GUI. [...]

By: JoshMiller

JoshMiller — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 14:41:06 +0000

I’ll have to look into this program. I’ve been extremely irritated with Gnome’s manager, most specifically, it keeps trying to connect to the previous network and asking for a key etc when I move for example, from work to home.

Look, just scan and say “hey, I’m at home now I should connect here instead”.

By: mulenmar

mulenmar — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 09:29:10 +0000

Too bad that the default tray icons for wicd are too nice to fit in with XP’s interface!

I’ve been using wicd for months now, it’s Grade-A awesome. And the ncurses interface is MUCH faster than the GTK+ interface. (Surprise.)

By: x33a

x33a — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 02:22:03 +0000

It doesn’t support pppoe, and that’s a major feature lack. Though otherwise it is pretty good. But i use pppoe-start/stop now on arch.

By: K.Mandla

K.Mandla — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 23:12:53 +0000

That is very cool, thanks. I’ll give that a try next.

By: K.Mandla

K.Mandla — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 23:10:52 +0000

You are correct, sir.

Thanks for pointing that out; I should have noticed that myself.

By: steve

steve — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 22:20:52 +0000

You really got that windows desktop down…very few giveaways

By: steve

steve — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 22:18:08 +0000

yeah wicd-curses is great too.

Nice review and pretty much my experience of wicd, which came about when network-manager-gnome wasn’t that great.