wicd
- Free • Open Source
- Linux
- Xfce
Comments and Reviews
Said about wicd as an alternative
It's very durable and simple to use.
Wicd is great for those who change networks often (tablets laptops etc.)
It's an excellent interface to "lower level" tools doing the authentication etc.
... command line and GUI interfaces and from my memory allows hotspots / hostapd setup ...
NetworkManager Tags
- network-manager
- daemon
- connection-manager
- wep
- xfce
- ubuntu
- wpa
- arch
- connection
Recent user activities on wicd
- Danilo_Venom edited wicd
- riveravaldez added wicd as alternative(s) to ConnMan
- riveravaldez thinks NetworkManager is an alternative to wicd
I have no idea if this is true, but I think it's deprecated. I cannot install it on Ubuntu (in 2020).
I think the cause is that Python2 is deprecated and Wicd is based on Python2.
So a lot of dependencies have been removed from the package manager and cannot be installed anymore.
Tell me if you can relate this issue.
Otherwise Wicd was a very good app.
https://packages.debian.org/experimental/python3-wicd
Reply written 9 months ago
It sure as hell works a lot better than the default network-manager included with Linux Mint, but it's unable to work with the Intel Wireless-AC 8265 in my desktop. I'm not sure if it was due to it being a much newer WiFi Card compared to the others that I have, being an Intel Wireless-AC 7260 for my laptop, and a Asus PCE-AC56 previously used in my desktop, or just a simple coding error in the latest version of it. If it is because of my card being newer, then other WiFi cards that are also recent would be out of luck in this instance.