Wicd is an open source wired and wireless network manager for Linux which aims to provide a simple interface to connect to networks with a wide variety of settings.
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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 ...
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- network-manager
- daemon
- connection-manager
- wep
- xfce
- ubuntu
- wpa
- arch
- connection
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Our users have written 2 comments and reviews about wicd, and it has gotten 21 likes
- Open Source and Free product.
- Average rating of 3
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- riveravaldez thinks NetworkManager is an alternative to wicd6 months ago
riveravaldez liked wicd6 months ago
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.
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.