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Author: Anto
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To: dng
Subject: Re: [Dng] A nice candidate substitute to network-manager


On 12/06/15 17:47, Anto wrote:
>
>
> On 12/06/15 17:39, Irrwahn wrote:
>> On Fri, 12 Jun 2015 17:30:58 +0200, Anto wrote:
>>> On 12/06/15 12:50, Marlon Nunes wrote:
>>>> Hi, i've been testing connman for a while and found it to handle very
>>>> well my network connections.
>>>>
>>>> https://01.org/connman
>>>> https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Connman
>>>>
>>>> In my view, we can forget about network-manager completely for desktop
>>>> usage.
>>> Do you use it on Devuan or Debian jessie? If so, would it be
>>> possible to
>>> let us know how you get that working?
>>>
>>> I remember that I had problems trying to make econnman compiled and
>>> installed on Debian wheezy.
>> There are connman and related packages available in Debian since
>> squeeze.
>> Just mentioning - not that I ever tried it, though.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Urban
>
> Thanks Urban,
>
> I have been using wicd since the infections started on Debian wheezy
> and after I failed to try other alternatives to network-manager. As
> far as I remember, I couldn't get connman to work on Debian wheezy and
> there was no GUI interface for XFCE. I tried econnman on
> Enlightenment, but I got the problems that I mentioned above.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Anto


I should have written my previous sentence properly like "there was no
connman GUI interface for XFCE in Debian wheezy when I tried it". :)

I just double checked. There is actually connman gui on Devuan/Debian
jessie as shown below. But I have not tried that yet. Does anybody try
that on XFCE?

Cheers,

Anto
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root@hp8530w:~# apt-cache policy connman-ui
connman-ui:
   Installed: (none)
   Candidate: 0~20130115-1
   Version table:
      0~20130115-1 0
          90 http://packages.devuan.org/merged/ jessie/main amd64 Packages
root@hp8530w:~#
root@hp8530w:~# apt-cache show connman-ui
Package: connman-ui
Version: 0~20130115-1
Installed-Size: 365
Maintainer: Shawn Landden <shawn@???>
Architecture: amd64
Depends: connman, libatk1.0-0 (>= 1.12.4), libc6 (>= 2.4), 
libcairo-gobject2 (>= 1.10.0), libcairo2 (>= 1.2.4), libdbus-1-3 (>= 
1.1.1), libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0 (>= 2.22.0), libglib2.0-0 (>= 2.28.0), 
libgtk-3-0 (>= 3.0.0), libpango-1.0-0 (>= 1.14.0), libpangocairo-1.0-0 
(>= 1.14.0)
Description: Full-featured GTK-based tray icon UI for ConnMan
Multi-Arch: foreign
Homepage: https://github.com/tbursztyka/connman-ui
Description-md5: b1a08eec2ed99c044b2ef6eadf250cf8
Tag: interface::x11, role::program, uitoolkit::gtk, x11::application
Section: net
Priority: optional
Filename: pool/DEBIAN/main/c/connman-ui/connman-ui_0~20130115-1_amd64.deb
Size: 74070
MD5sum: f634526109471bcebe4611467a6c21ce
SHA1: 7a82293addcaa3b41e68dc4484fc2c7a4e6cc657
SHA256: c5c74443c830cd67cd8175cb64680a423569faebe754006457cbafc8ee6a8a1e


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