Hi Alex, I prefered wicd in network connection. ivman for mount. and for the battery, script's + awesome statusbar
best regards JuanPablo On Sat, Jan 17, 2009 at 3:36 PM, Alex Cornejo <[email protected]> wrote: > 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]. >
