Re: lightweight wifi UI (Was: Insidious systemd)
On Mon, 27 May 2019 09:29:46 +0200
Jonas Smedegaard <jonas@jones.dk> wrote:
> Quoting Patrick Bartek (2019-05-27 03:49:06)
> > Needing to convert this box from wired ethernet to wireless, I
> > searched for a suitable network manager and wicd looked good: No
> > desktop environment dependencies (I use a window manager Openbox
> > and single lxpanel), compatibility with Openbox, etc.
>
> [ unneeded systemd details snipped ]
>
> > After more investigating, I came across wifi-radar whose simulated
> > install doesn't muck my system. Any suggestions for something
> > better? I could just go with iwconfig or iw? No big deal. I've
> > done it before. But being lazy, if I can find an app to do the
> > work, so much the better.
>
> Here are the options I know of which provides a UI with wifi strength
> and being more lightweight than network-manager, listed in order of
> personal preference for install on Buster (some, iwd in particular,
> is notably less mature on Stretch):
>
> iwd is extremely lightweight console-only tool yet provides
> interactive probing of wifi strength. It integrates fine with
> network-manager and systemd if a) explicitly telling those systems to
> use it and b) explicitly turned off wpasupplicant.
>
> connman is in my experience more reliable than wicd but looks ugly.
>
> wicd felt unreliable in my experience - but possibly I didn't give it
> enough attention (see above about disabling wpasupplicant).
>
> iw + wifi-radar if all else fails. :-)
>
>
> - Jonas
>
>
> P.S. At first I skipped this excellent question due to it being
> presented as a rant about systemd. I dearly recommend to _avoid_
> mixing rants with questions, as you then are more likely to miss
> valuable input.
>
On a headless system I want connection on preferred system, when not
available to another system.
I want this without GUI
I tried wicd and hate networkmanager.
Any hints on cli is welcome!
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