Woodsong
2017-08-26, 21:16
I have the latest Kali 2017.1 installed and upgraded on my Acer Aspire One laptop, with LXDE. No dual-boot or anything like that, everything works great basically.
Every other DE that comes with Kali seems to use network-manager/nm-applet for managing connections, except for LXDE which is using Wicd. Since a lot of tools out there will specifically send commands at network-manager (restarting it, etc.) in particular as opposed to Wicd, I'm wanting to replace one with the other. Also I like the extra features it has, like managing VPN connections, etcetera.
Problem is, there doesn't seem to be an applet available for it. I've disabled Wicd and installed network-manager, and once I start it as a service, I do have a connection, but I can't seem to add an applet for it, and also when I go into default lxsession and services settings, nothing related to network-manager is anywhere to be found. No packages such as nm-applet or anything are found with apt, so I'm kind of at a loss what to do. Any help or suggestions would be much appreciated.
Every other DE that comes with Kali seems to use network-manager/nm-applet for managing connections, except for LXDE which is using Wicd. Since a lot of tools out there will specifically send commands at network-manager (restarting it, etc.) in particular as opposed to Wicd, I'm wanting to replace one with the other. Also I like the extra features it has, like managing VPN connections, etcetera.
Problem is, there doesn't seem to be an applet available for it. I've disabled Wicd and installed network-manager, and once I start it as a service, I do have a connection, but I can't seem to add an applet for it, and also when I go into default lxsession and services settings, nothing related to network-manager is anywhere to be found. No packages such as nm-applet or anything are found with apt, so I'm kind of at a loss what to do. Any help or suggestions would be much appreciated.