[Haskell-cafe] XMonad and NetworkManager?

Zsolt Dollenstein zsol.zso.l at gmail.com
Mon Jun 29 08:43:45 EDT 2009


On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 2:27 PM, Felipe Lessa<felipe.lessa at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 01:28:47PM +0400, Alexey Khudyakov wrote:
>> I use wicd to manage wireless connections for about three month and
>> I'm pretty happy with it. It seems to be much saner than network manager.
>> Didn't any serious problems with it.
>
> I second that.  I've gone away from NM because I always had to
> wait for several minutes before being able to connect anywhere
> after an suspend/hibernate cycle, and also because there wasn't a
> way of forcing it to discover the available wireless networks
> again.

I triple that. I've gone away from NM because it wasn't configurable
enough for me. I'm happy with wicd for the last half year or so. I
haven't noticed the ncurses interface but I'm definitely going to take
a quick peek at it soon.

--
Zsolt


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