Re: How best to replace NetworkManager with wicd?
keitho@strucktower.com wrote:
>Sometime back I moved one of my laptops from using Gnome to using a wm (i3
>at present). I have been slowly trying to learn the various functions that
>the Gnome DE does in the background (hides from the user) so that I can
>replace the Gnome-related-software to software which is desktop
>independent.
Network Manager per se is not connected to Gnome and runs just fine
with XFCE, KDE and even from the command line (you will have to
create connections manually, though).
>I thought I could simply invoke
>
>$sudo /etc/init.d/NetworkManager stop
Did you try
# /etc/init.d/network-manager stop
? – The file /etc/init.d/NetworkManager isn’t even existing on my system.
Best regards,
Claudius
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