wicd-manager-settings.conf(5)

wicd-manager-settings.conf5

Contains settings that control wicd's behavior

Overview

This file contains general configuration information for Wicd.
This file is located at /etc/wicd/manager-settings.conf

Settings

link_detect_tool = <0|1|2>

0 = autodetect
1 = ethtool
2 = mii-tool

flush_tool = <0|1|2>

0 = autodetect
1 = ip
2 = route

backend = <ioctl|external>

Default is ioctl backend.

signal_display_type = <0|1>

0 = Show signal strength as a percentage
1 = Show signal strength in dBm

dhcp_client = <0|1|2|3>

0 = autodetect
1 = dhclient
2 = dhcpcd
3 = pump

sudo_app = <0|1|2|3>

0 = autodetect
1 = pkexec
2 = kdesu
3 = ktsuss

wired_interface = <interface_name|None>
always_show_wired_interface = <True|False>
wired_connect_mode = <1|2|3>

1 = default profile
2 = show list
3 = last used profile

prefer_wired = <True|False>

True = Switch to wired interface if a link is detected, even if already connected to wireless
False = Do not switch to wired interface automatically

wireless_interface = <name_of_wireless_interface|None>
wpa_driver = <wext|madwifi|ndiswrapper|hostap|hermes|atmel|broadcom|ipw|ralinklegacy|none>

The default (and best supported) is wext. It should work properly in most cases. The none special value makes WICD pass no -D parameter to wpa_supplicant, which might be useful in some cases.

auto_reconnect = <True|False>

This settings determines whether Wicd will attempt to reconnect on connection loss.

use_global_dns = <True|False>

If set to "True" and values are specified in the global DNS settings below, this will cause Wicd to use these DNS settings.

global_dns_dom = <plaintext_domain_name>

This specifies the default search domain to be used by the resolver.

global_dns_1 = <ip_address>
global_dns_2 = <ip_address>
global_dns_3 = <ip_address>
debug_mode = <integer_value>

0 = disabled
1 = enabled

Releases

5 releases since Debian 6.0 (Squeeze); the text changed 3 times.

  1. 6.0
  2. 7–8
  3. 9
  4. 10

From wicd-daemon 1.7.4+tb2-6 in Debian 10 (Buster). Parsed by carta from the page's man source.