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Network managers are bloat by definition. What distro are you using?

>>993387

Void Linux. The only thing I'd like to have is a simple TUI/CLI that detects WiFi networks and allows me to connect to them. Wanted to ask if a network manager so minimal is currently available. Otherwise, I can ofc write my own one, but it's better to use an existing alternative.

>>993388

If you're looking for something wizard-like that's TUI/CLI, then you're out of luck because that doesn't exist(considering creating it tbh).

Void should come with wpa_supplicant and wpa_cli. Just run wpa_cli and run the help command and it'll be close to what you want.

>>993390

Thanks. I'll start working on it as soon as I can.

>>993384 (OP)

wicd

>>993384 (OP)

I heard some really good things about iwdctl (iwd), but I never used it myself.

>>993422

nmtui is more braindead for me

>>993408

Based and redpilled

There's nothing wrong with dhcpcd and WPA_supplicant .

I wrote a short shell script for the latter to connect to new networks using dmenu. That's all I really need from a network manager.

>>993384 (OP)

just configure static ips and remove all that bloat

wicd is as little bloat as possible

connman better in every way but the fact that it's written by jewtel

>>993384 (OP)

connman is designed for embedded stuff and it has been the most reliable network manager i've used so far

>>993582

And it needs dbus. Gas.

>>993520

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