Debian/ Fluxbox/ Wicd - no applet?
by tpprynn from LinuxQuestions.org on (#58PQS)
Hello. I've just used the netinstall iso of Debian 10 to make a Fluxbox-fronted system with minimal and light applications. I'm impressed with what this has done for a nine year old Thinkpad, also extending its battery life by an unexpected couple of hours or more during varied use. (This laptop I'd originally intended to set up just for word processing, and with the wireless off and brightness down a bit a battery with 70% capacity now is showing 9 1/2 hours from a full charge.)
I've used Wicd instead of Network Manager, and though it is working very well I would like its taskbar applet to appear consistently on the taskbar - it does if wicd-gtk is started manually now, though it didn't when first installed (?) The applet remains when wicd-gtk is closed but at present isn't otherwise appearing.
Wicd is already starting automatically at boot, with wifi connecting almost straight away, so the Debian Wiki didn't yield the right information, seeming to talk in terms of everything being manually set; the Archwiki shows the phrase "wicd-client --tray" which feels as if it's what I need, somewhere? So I think I'm needing to replace something that was done automatically while wicd was installing. There's nothing in wicd-gtk's settings that deals with this.
Thanks for any input.
I've used Wicd instead of Network Manager, and though it is working very well I would like its taskbar applet to appear consistently on the taskbar - it does if wicd-gtk is started manually now, though it didn't when first installed (?) The applet remains when wicd-gtk is closed but at present isn't otherwise appearing.
Wicd is already starting automatically at boot, with wifi connecting almost straight away, so the Debian Wiki didn't yield the right information, seeming to talk in terms of everything being manually set; the Archwiki shows the phrase "wicd-client --tray" which feels as if it's what I need, somewhere? So I think I'm needing to replace something that was done automatically while wicd was installing. There's nothing in wicd-gtk's settings that deals with this.
Thanks for any input.