[SOLVED] Wicd-kde daemon problem

lukameen · 06-01-2012, 10:43 AM

I'm running slack-current on a Dell lattitude.

I removed wicd (which was working fine) and installed wicd-kde. My problem is the wicd-kde client reports the wicd daemon isn't running.

I manually start the wicd daemon, but the client still says the dameon isn't running.

Any suggestions or help is appreciated.

Alien Bob · 06-01-2012, 11:02 AM

You should not remove the wicd package... that contains the daemon.
All you need to do is prevent the wicd-client to start and then run wicd-kde instead.

Eric

lukameen · 06-01-2012, 12:05 PM

Thank you, Eric.

It's working now.

marnold · 07-07-2012, 06:39 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Alien Bob

All you need to do is prevent the wicd-client to start and then run wicd-kde instead.

How do you keep wicd-client from starting? I haven't been able to figure that one out.

marnold · 07-10-2012, 01:28 PM

Anybody? I've done a bunch of Google searches but nothing I've found has worked. The only thing I could think of was to change the permissions on wicd-client so it isn't executable, but that seems like a kludge.

Alien Bob · 07-10-2012, 01:48 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by marnold

How do you keep wicd-client from starting? I haven't been able to figure that one out.

You can prevent the wicd client from starting when you logon, if you add this line to its desktop files in /etc/xdg/autostart and /usr/share/autostart :

Code:

NotShowIn=KDE;

Eric

marnold · 07-10-2012, 01:52 PM

Woohoo! Thanks, Eric. That did the trick!

Geremia · 12-25-2013, 03:45 PM

I had this same problem, but my issue was that I had wicd-kde but not wicd! It works now.