loud gull
Hi, on my previous installations of Arch Linux, to connect to a WiFi, I could simply click the wifi button, click connect to the wifi I wanted to connect to, then set the password and that was it. Now I have to use terminal to do that and since I'm using a lot of different wifis and changing a lot it's really not practical. How could I fix my 'wifi setter'?
Also there is definitely wifi where I am, its not the problem
systemctl --type=service shows that NetworkManager, dhcpd and wpa_supplicant are running
Oof
Apparently NetworkManager uses wpa_supplicant and two instances of this package are running at the same time
minor cliff
@loud gull have you tried a different DM?
DMs can be quite buggy in my experience
things.. just don't work
loud gull
<@321218684117057536> have you tried a different DM?
DM?
minor cliff
desktop manager
loud gull
Oh you mean like switching to GNOME?
minor cliff
yeah
loud gull
Hell nah
minor cliff
try it
minor cliff
KDE is the most buggy DM i have seen
loud gull
I don't want to change all of that just for wifi
minor cliff
do you have all the dependencies?
reinstall network manager maybe
i would just temporarily switch to something like gnome just to test if the problem is cause of KDE
dusk token
<@321218684117057536> have you tried a different DM?
you should say DE
Desktop Environment
dusk token
DM often means Display Manager, like gdm, sddm ly ...
minor cliff
but regardless these things are quite buggy, when things break bad or are broken in an annoying way, i just switch to another one
dusk token
i think that is a good habit
if can't find solution
well i use dwm, without buggy and bloated GUI (
)
minor cliff
for example this bug https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=295633 from 2012 that still is in effect caused me to switch from KDE and then Cinnamon (cause that one had it too), because it makes altgr just not work in certain apps which is annoying
minor cliff
well i use `dwm`, without buggy and bloated GUI (<:empty:904500974767452192> )
i should look into those myself
dusk token
yeah cli is often more reliable i think
minor cliff
i just think a lot of DEs don't have the level of polish that say Windows and probably MacOS have which is apparent by the way things break all too often
partly because people use cli a lot in Linux
dusk token
reasonable
noble gorge
Wifi still works but weirdly
be sure to have all plasma dependencies installed
.aw plasma
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noble gorge
.aw wifi
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loud gull
Oh okay, thank you