Wicd
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Wicd, which stands for Wireless Interface Connection Daemon, is an open-source software utility to manage both wireless and wired networks for Linux. The project started in late 2006 with the creation of Connection Manager, which eventually became Wicd.[1] Wicd aims to provide a simple interface to connect to networks with a wide variety of settings.
Wicd will only automatically connect to wireless networks you have specified and will not automatically connect to an unknown network.
Wicd supports wireless encryption using wpa_supplicant. Users can design their own "templates", which can be used by Wicd to connect to a large variety of networks using any type of encryption wpa_supplicant supports.
Wicd is split into two major components: the daemon, and the user interface.[2] These two components communicate via D-Bus. This design allows the user interface to run as a standard user, and the daemon to run as the root user, so the user can change the wireless network without knowing the root password. The split interface/daemon design would also allow a person to write a new front-end to the Wicd daemon, such as wicd-qt. There are also other front-ends available for many DEs such as GNOME, Xfce, and Fluxbox.
Wicd is currently available in some Linux distributions, such as Gentoo Linux,[3] Slackware,[4] Ubuntu[5] and Zenwalk Linux.[6] Debian has dropped support for it because Python 2 is no longer supported.
See also
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- NetworkManager
- Wireless tools for Linux, for command-line interface
- netifd, net interface daemon of the OpenWrt project
- Linux on the desktop
References
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- ↑ Connection Manager: a new wireless manager – Ubuntu Forums
- ↑ Wicd README
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