On Wed, Jul 04, 2018 at 12:54:28AM -0700, Jimmy Johnson wrote:

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>
> It sounds like you are talking about network manager. I don't believe wicd
> has the traits you are talking about. As for me it's handy to connect and
> disconnect, mostly disconnect while using multimedia. I've never heard of
> wicd doing anything wrong,

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That's because probably you haven't needed to use wicd for something
more specific than "configure wlan0" :)

I used wicd for several years, and I had always to swear against the
gods of three or four religions to have it do what I wanted. The
hardest thing was to convince wicd that I wanted a *specific* wi-fi
connection among the several available: it kept choosing what it
preferred, probably on the basis of "signal strength", and kept
disconnecting and reconecting every time somebody entered the room or
moved a chair. I had to manually disable the connections I didn't want
to use, then manually re-enable them.

I guess they eventually fixed that introducing priorities, but still,
IMHO a software should do what I tell it to do, not what it likes or
wishes...

Anyway, it's mainly a matter of preference here, and luckily we have
enough alternatives so far :)

HND

KatolaZ

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