Network Manager and Connman have both worked better for me than Wicd.

On Fri, Jul 24, 2015 at 5:40 PM, Andrej N. Gritsenko <and...@rep.kiev.ua>
wrote:

>     Hello!
>
> John Whitmore has written on Friday, 24 July, at 18:10:
> >I'm putting a RaspberryPi system together for fairly non technical
> >people. LXDE is running away the business but the non technical people
> are a
> >bit confused by the current network status. The problem is that the
> system is
> >mobile and as a result is using USB GSM Dongles which don't show up in the
> >current network status on the Panel.
>
> >Does anybody know of an existing panel which would display some sort of
> basic
> >network status?
>
> Both 'netstat' and 'netstatus' plugins for lxpanel are very simple and
> probably would not help with that. Although there are currently few other
> network status plugins around:
>
> a) Network Manager has tray status interface;
> b) Wicd is presented in the tray;
> c) raspberrypi.org's Raspbian distro has own plugin for lxpanel.
>
> I believe (a) has the required support, not sure about (b) and (c) but
> probably they can do it as well.
>
> I think the developers team will decide the network plugin future later,
> maybe by merging all known plugins code altogether to get one but enough
> powerful one.
>
> >Thanks a million for any ideas.
>
> >John
>
>     With best regards,
>     Andriy.
>
>
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