To connect automatically on boot you only need to pass --auto-conn
parameter to netman, the frontend GUI. I use it that way and it
connects as soon as I log into XFCE4. Configure your desktop or window
manager to run netman with --auto-conn as a parameter.

So, the command should be like this:
/usr/bin/netman --auto-conn

The latest netman commit on git.devuan.org uses a systray icon just
like all other network managers. Left click shows the GUI, right click
shows a popup menu. Icon is updated to signify 'connected' and
'disconnected' status.

Edward

On 28/09/2015, David Hare <davidahare@???> wrote:
> Thanks Edward for your great effort, commitment and persistence and
> Aitor for packaging.
>
> I have yet to work out how to automatically connect on boot. A manpage
> is needed.
>
> An installation and some live images here use (self-compiled) eudev. The
> wireless inteface is not necessarily wlanx but a string which I haven't
> yet identified where it comes from. Maybe it's to do with newer
> (systemd-)udev which eudev tracks. However it does show and work in
> wicd. I would like to see netman identify and use other than wlan0.
>
> I have used wicd for convenience and ability to autoconnect but am not
> keen on dbus reliance. Before I used wpa-gui but it has qt4 deps.
>
> Netman wouldn't work here till after reboot, with wicd initscript disabled.
>
> David
>
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