Re: trying to use wireless not from gnome... what's the incantation?
On Mon, May 23, 2016 at 11:39:06AM +0200, Abou Al Montacir wrote:
> On Mon, 2016-05-23 at 08:28 +0200, Adam Borowski wrote:
> > >
> > > I'm posting here both in hope of a solution, and because this seems
> > > like a bug. How come this only works from gnome? nmcli in particular
> > > looks like it's trying to be a general-purpose solution, but somehow
> > > it too only works from gnome.
> > NM is closely tied to Gnome so regressions in non-Gnome use aren't
> > surprising.
> Login in Gnome once, activate wifi and ask that the connection should be used by
> all users.
> Then NM will save the password some were so that it connect without user login.
Right... so you say non-Gnome users should keep a Gnome installation just to
enter the wifi password, and log out+log in to Gnome whenever they visit a
new place (which on a laptop means, quite often) then log out+log in back to
their regular environment? I think I'll pass.
No one demands the Gnome team to make their tools work in unrelated
enviroments (such as DWM Britton uses), but if those tools don't work, they
cannot be touted as the only solution. And that's why we keep wicd for
non-Gnome users who want a clicky-clicky wifi manager.
Sure, wicd has only a small fraction of Network-Manager's functionality, but
it does what 95% of laptop users need. The rest, well, are on their own
with console tools.
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