Wicd
| Wicd | |
|---|---|
| File:Wicd client logo.svg | |
| File:Wicdmanager-italian.png Italian version of Wicd on a Linux-like operating system | |
| Developers | Adam Blackburn, Dan O'Reilly, Andrew Psaltis, David Paleino |
| Stable release | 1.7.4
/ January 25, 2016 |
| Repository |
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| Written in | Python |
| Engine | |
| Operating system | Linux |
| Type | |
| License | GPL (free software) |
| Website | launchpad |
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 Ubuntu[3] and Zenwalk Linux.[4] Debian has dropped support for it because Python 2 is no longer supported. Gentoo Linux[5][6] and Slackware[7] also dropped support for it.
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
[edit | edit source]- ^ Connection Manager: a new wireless manager – Ubuntu Forums
- ^ Wicd README
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