Hi. Wicd works perfectly for me on all kind of wireless and wired networks, but I'd give you that wicd-client's interface is a bit crappy-looking.
For battery I've used qbat for some time, but now I use a custom Awesome script for that matter, one of those dumping random numbers, but it's at least as accurate as powertop. On sáb, 2009-01-17 at 13:36 -0500, Alex Cornejo 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 > -- Fernando Jiménez Solano <[email protected]> -- To unsubscribe, send mail to [email protected].
