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Re: trying to use wireless not from gnome... what's the incantation?



On Tue, 2016-05-24 at 00:06 +0200, Adam Borowski wrote:
> On Mon, May 23, 2016 at 01:17:08PM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> > 
> > On Mon, 2016-05-23 at 12:10 +0200, Adam Borowski wrote:
> > > 
> > > On Mon, May 23, 2016 at 11:39:06AM +0200, Abou Al Montacir wrote:
> > > > 
> > > > 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.
> > [...]
> > 
> > You already have passed.  Please stop spreading FUD about a program you
> > don't use and don't really know the state of.
> The original report from Britton Kerin doesn't look like FUD, what Vincent
> Bernat just confirmed and diagnosed: that the password UI is currently broken.
> Thus, I think my recommendation of trying wicd was helpful.

It may well be.

[...]
> But, how is mentioning an alternative and/or recommending to try one FUD?

It isn't.  That's why I only criticised the *last* part of what you
said.

Ben.

-- 
Ben Hutchings
Time is nature's way of making sure that everything doesn't happen at once.

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