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What do I need to have GUI to auto detect & connect to Wireless Network

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I am on LXDE + Minimal Ubuntu for sometime. I am lost at how to troubleshoot or connect to Wireless networks. So I am looking for a GUI tool, perhaps light-weight & relatively easy to use, that works with LXDE. It should handle listing of Wireless Networks & allow me to connect to them easily.

It should also allow me to default to a Wireless network when I startup my PC too.

UPDATE: network-manager-gnome & nm-applet

this seems to be one way. But I can't seem to have nm-applet start on boot.

I tried

sudo cp /etc/xdg/autostart/nm-applet.desktop ~/.config/autostart/

Then reading another article, edited /etc/xdg/autostart/nm-applet.desktop

OnlyShowIn=LXDE;

Since I am using LXDE. But it still wont start ...

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answered 1 Year ago eighethod · Accepted Answer

Why not use network-manager and network-manager-gnome. The latter provide the nm-applet that goes in the system tray and allow to configure connections.

It used to work also with LXDE.

To start it at login, copy it to the personal autostart directory:

cp /etc/xdg/autostart/nm-applet.desktop ~/.config/autostart/