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| ====== xfce4-wavelan-plugin ====== | ====== xfce4-wavelan-plugin ====== | ||
| - | ===== About ===== | + | A plugin used to display stats from a wireless |
| - | This plugin | + | |
| - | It shows signal quality as percentage on Linux and dBm on BSDs, hence progressbar will probably | + | * **[[#Latest Release|Latest Release]]** |
| - | be not really accurate on BSDs, as dBm is hardly comparable to a maximum. | + | * **[[# |
| + | * **[[#Source Code Repository|Source Code Repository]]** | ||
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| - | ===== Usage ===== | + | ---- |
| - | Add the plugin to the panel, and select the wireless interface you want to monitor. | + | |
| - | ===== Screenshot ===== | + | xfce4-wavelan-plugin displays the following information about a WaveLAN device: |
| - | {{: | + | |
| - | ===== Reporting Bugs ===== | + | * Signal state (tells if a carrier signal was detected) |
| + | * Signal quality (current quality of the carrier signal) | ||
| + | * Note that the latter is in % on Linux and in dBm on BSDs. Hence, on BSDs, the progressbar may be never full, as dBm is not easily comparable to a maximum. | ||
| + | * Network name (current SSID of the WaveLAN network) | ||
| - | Bugs should be reported to the [[http:// | + | At the time of this writing NetBSD, OpenBSD, FreeBSD and Linux are supported. |
| - | ===== Getting it ===== | + | The plugin shows signal quality as a percentage on Linux and as dBm on BSDs. Therefore, |
| - | The normal (and best) way to get the wavelan plugin | + | |
| - | If wavelan isn't available there, or if you want a different version, you can download it in source form from [[http:// | + | ---- |
| - | ===== Recent Releases ===== | + | |
| + | ===== Usage ===== | ||
| + | Add the plugin to the panel, and select the wireless interface you want to monitor. | ||
| - | ==== 0.5.12 (2015/ | + | ---- |
| - | * Add strings to translation | + | ===== Screenshot ===== |
| - | * Use GtkComboBoxText instead of GtkCombo | + | {{:panel-plugins: |
| - | * Use check buttons with mnemonic for hot keys | + | |
| - | * Use getifaddrs() instead of popen ("/ | + | |
| - | * Remove check for glib 2.14, was released 7 years ago.. | + | |
| - | * Make this compile with -Wall -Werror (declarations after statement) | + | |
| - | * new translations: bg, en_AU, fi, he, is, ms, oc, th, sr | + | |
| - | * updated translations: | + | |
| - | ==== 0.5.11 (2012/ | + | ---- |
| - | * Better compliance with panel plugin HIG | + | |
| - | * Fix transparency and put event box above its children (bug #8913) | + | |
| - | ==== 0.5.10 (2012/ | + | ===== Latest Release ===== |
| - | * Translation updates (uk, | + | |
| - | ==== 0.5.9 (2012/04/13) ==== | + | {{rss> |
| - | * Make the icon optional (bug #7520) | + | |
| - | ==== 0.5.8 (2012/04/09) ==== | + | [[https:// |
| - | * Build the plugin | + | |
| - | * Add about dialog | + | |
| + | * **[[https:// | ||
| - | ==== 0.5.7 (2012/ | + | [[|Back To Top]] |
| - | * Port to libxfce4ui | + | |
| - | * Adapt to panel 4.9 and newer | + | |
| - | * Fix compatibility with GNU/ | + | |
| - | * Fix transparency and bar color (bug #7346) | + | |
| - | * Explicitely link against libm (bugs #7991, #8516) | + | |
| - | ==== 0.5.6 (2010/ | + | ---- |
| - | * Support for both xfce 4.6 and 4.8 | + | ===== Source Code Repository ===== |
| - | * Various bug fixes and code cleanup | + | |
| - | * Translated into 6 more languages (33 total) | + | |
| - | ==== 0.5.5 (2009/04/09) ==== | + | [[https://gitlab.xfce.org/ |
| - | * Merge various patches from NetBSD and FreeBSD, ' | + | |
| - | * Totally revamped GUI, courtesy of Johan van der Slikke | + | |
| - | * Show signal strengh in dBm on BSDs, in % on Linux | + | |
| - | * Various bugfixes, localized config dialog is fixed | + | |
| - | ==== 0.5.4 (2007/ | ||
| - | * Add an option to make the panel icon square. | ||
| - | * Fix a bug that calculated the signal strength incorrectly, | ||
| - | * Fix a bug where the interface wasn't activated if it was the first in the list. | ||
| - | * Improve the handling of the kernel' | ||
| - | * Fix compilation on kfreebsd thanks to Petr Salinger. | ||
| - | ==== 0.5.3 (2006/ | + | ---- |
| - | * Fix a typo that referenced the wrong executable in the .desktop file. | + | |
| - | ==== 0.5.2 (2006/ | + | ===== Reporting Bugs ===== |
| - | * Fix the regression that made the icon square. | + | |
| - | * Added Italian translation. (Thanks ema). | + | |
| - | * Allow hiding the plugin if no device is present. | + | |
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| - | ==== 0.5.1 (2006/ | + | |
| - | * Fix the bug that meant that it couldn' | + | |
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| - | ==== 0.5.0 (2006/ | + | |
| - | * Updated to new panel API | + | |
| - | ===== Source code repository ===== | + | |
| - | [[http:// | + | |
| - | ===== Recent Changes ===== | + | * **[[: |
| - | {{rss> | + | |
| - | ==== Open Bugs ==== | ||
| - | {{rss> | ||
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