How to get my WICD auto start on login? [Solved]

[gocool]

Hi,
When I login I get a window to enter the root password for my wicd to begin.

After entering the password and select on "remember the password", still I get the same dialog box the next reboot.

Is there a way to make it remember?

I use KDE.

regards,
Gocool

[dave_64]

It's been a long time since I did this, and, I can't remember exactly how to do it, but, if I remember correctly, you make a link in your home directory, in the .kde4 subdirectory (a hidden directory), and the sub sub directory Autostart, to the wicd command (including the path to it, of course).
I don't know if this is relevent with systemd, but another thing we did was run these two commands (as root):
rc-update add wicd default
rc-update del networkmanager
You might want to wait for a more confident response or confirmation on some of this.

[gocool]

Since I have systemd, i think it's going to be different...but not sure...

[dave_64]

Sorry I can't give you a more definitive answer, but I don't know how things and what things are changed with systemd. As you suggest, the rc-update commands may not work with systemd.
I should have mentioned that after running those commands, you need to reboot for them to take effect. I also noticed that the word "networkmanager" should be:
NetworkManager
And, of course, to reverse the process and restore networkmanager:
rc-update add NetworkManager default
rc-update del wicd

[gocool]

wicd is already in the default

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sabayon # rc-update | grep wicd
                 wicd |      default 

And my wicd is working perfectly, but the only thing is after KDE is launched, it shows a dialog box to enter the root password, and I don't want to enter it every time the machine boots.

[dave_64]

You might get some ideas if you google on:
gentoo wicd autostart
This link looks interesting:
http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-96 ... 91365ebddf

[daywatch]

with systemd, after installing net-misc/wicd:

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# systemctl disable NetworkManager
# systemctl stop NetworkManager
# systemctl enable wicd

after, enable the wicd client with the --tray option in your startup apps .Don't know how in KDE, I am not using it, in xfce is already made and entry for wicd-gtk --tray at Settings > Session and Startup > Application Autostart.
I suppose for KDE you must install also kde-misc/wicd-client-kde

reboot and you should be happy.

[gocool]

Awesome...that worked. Thank you again.