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I'm trying to replace the default network manager with wicd. Wicd installs fine, but there is no notification icon, and the default network manager is not disabled. If I log off my wifi using the default network manager and log on using wicd, I cannot access the internet.

Using ps -e I can see that both Network Manager and Wicd is running - should they both be running?

Wicd is set to start at boot, but I don't see it, when the computerstarts. Do I need to do something else than just install Wicd to replace the default manager? Should I apt-get remove the default manager? I have really skow wifi, and after to computer sleeps, I loose the connection completely.

So what Im looking for is a complete replacement of Network Manager to make my connection a lot more stable.

The possible duplicate suggested by Huckle applies to older versions of Ubuntu.

I'm running Ubuntu 16.04 LTS.

Thanks for any help

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OK -so I found a way, although it seems more like a workaround than an actual solution: I used GGleb's answer in this thread to enable system tray icons: How to re-enable the systray (indicator panel) after latest updates. His solution is to install the Indicator Systemtray Unity. His instructions was:

sudo apt-add-repository ppa:fixnix/indicator-systemtray-unity
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install indicator-systemtray-unity

This enabled the wicd icon in the system tray. I still had the default Network Manager showing up and giving me notifications. I used Synaptic to completely remove everything connected to Network Manager and rebooted. Now I only have wicd's icon.

It even seems that my wifi connection is more stable than before.

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