CentOS

I made it work in MATE. There is a parameter in /etc for the applet that is hiding it from the panel when it matches 'gnome'. I guess that is because Gnome3 has another thing and MATE is Gnome2 but matches. I will post the config once I have access to my box. This is indeed a pain and I had to use n...

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In a better shape than when I was 30.

I had a blue box saying "RH6.5" a long time ago.
Now using CentOS6.x and 7.3

I dabbled with CentOS around version 4 and a
have been using 6 and 7 for data acquisition and Hadoop clusters for like 4 years.

Best move ever.

I am using MATE and there is not much of a nice NetworkManager applet in sight. But NetworkManager-tui works okay for me and looks clearer than the other options. So, yum install NetworkManager-tui And then nmtui Activate a connection Get a list of Wifi networks Pick one, put password There, you sho...