Wicd opens dozens of "Wireless Network Authentication Required" windows

[John McCabe-Dansted]

I think there is something wrong with my wireless range extender, it keeps dropping connections. However, wicd-gtk handles this particularly badly, when I come back to my computer I find dozens of "Wireless Network Authentication Required" windows. Since this is hardware related rather than password related, I don't know why wicd needs to pop up these windows, but in any case there is no point having more than more than one of these windows open at the same time.

I would expect wicd-gtk to never fill up my taskbar with authentication windows.

A workaround is to run <code> while wmctrl -c "Wireless Network Authentication Required" || wmctrl -c "Wireless Network Authentication Required"; do sleep 0.1 ; done</code> (The || is only required as wmctrl returns false if it gets a transient X error, so adding the || makes it more robust.

Description: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS
Release: 12.04

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
Package: wicd-gtk 1.7.2.3-1ubuntu0.1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-27.43-generic-pae 3.2.21
Uname: Linux 3.2.0-27-generic-pae i686
NonfreeKernelModules: wl
ApportVersion: 2.0.1-0ubuntu11
Architecture: i386
Date: Wed Aug 8 14:06:52 2012
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Beta i386 (20120301)
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
 TERM=xterm
 SHELL=/bin/bash
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_AU.UTF-8
 LANGUAGE=en_AU:en
SourcePackage: wicd
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)