On Tue, 9 Feb 2016 11:24:38 -0500, Steve wrote in message
<20160209112438.3f4c863e@???>:

> On Tue, 9 Feb 2016 12:16:08 +0100
> Didier Kryn <kryn@???> wrote:
>
> > I always wondered why there existed network-manager at all
>
> For the reasons I enumerated above. I don't use NetworkManager because
> it's too much baggage, but I have to admit, its human-engineering is
> spectacular **on a window manager with a panel**.

..wicd? Easiest Gui 5 years ago, It Just Works, and It Just
Worked when NetworkManager et al Trashed my networking.

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..med vennlig hilsen = with Kind Regards from Arnt Karlsen
...with a number of polar bear hunters in his ancestry...
Scenarios always come in sets of three:
best case, worst case, and just in case.