Hi everyone, I use awesome partly because it is so lightweight, however I am forced to load a couple of gnome utilities which in turn load a lot of crap like gconfd, gvfsd, gnome-keyring etc.. the purpose of this email is to survey the awesome community for alternatives. I plan to write an article @awesome wiki with the conclusions of this discussion.
The apps in question are nm-applet (network manager) and gnome-power-manager. Nm-applet is the best solution I've found to handle wireless connections, it supports WEP/WPA, it autoconnects when the networks configured are available and most importantly IT WORKS (wifi-radar, wicd and similar seem to be very poor, at least the last time I tried them). The gnome-power-manager serves as a useful battery meter which actually predicts accurately battery life instead of just throwing out some random numbers from /proc/acpi/*, also it dimms down the screen automagically when not on AC power and I can suspend/hibernate from there. I imagine there are a lot of people in the awesome community who use laptops and require/like similar functionality, do you have any suggestions? Cheers, Alex -- To unsubscribe, send mail to [email protected].
