i use ion3 as my window manager, and it doesn’t have a tray, and wicd-client assumes you have a tray… couldn’t get wireless working until i saw a post somewhere where someone mentioned you could do
wicd-client -n or wicd-client –no-tray
which is exactly what i needed. somehow for gui-based apps i don’t rtfm, probably because generally tfm has nothing useful, but this time i see the manpage is great.