Monday, December 11, 2017

wireless - Ubuntu 18.04.1 - System settings after removing network-manager and installing wicd

I've been having some issues with my wireless connection for some time, even in Ubuntu 16.04
A couple of weeks ago I finally switched to the new Ubuntu version and I still had the same problems, my connection would disconnect and reconnect every now and then, affecting my downloads or processes that required Internet access, and I couldn't see one of my wireless networks, the one I use for printing, when every other device could.
So this morning I removed network-manager and installed wicd, and I can finally see that wireless network I was talking about.
But now the problem is that I can't access the system settings, not even pressing the button at the top right corner.



I read that this could be worked around by installing gnome-control-center, but when I try to do it, it said that I need to install network-manager along with it (dependencies?).
But Network Manager doesn't seem to work with me...



What could I do?







Edit:
I've installed gnome-control-center and everything seems back to normal.
I can see the previously unseen wireless network at the Wi-Fi settings tab.
But apparently I now have both network-manager and wicd.
Is that bad?



Thanks.

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