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====== xfce4-wavelan-plugin ====== | ====== xfce4-wavelan-plugin ====== | ||
- | This plugin is used to display stats from a wireless | + | Xfce4-wavelan-plugin is used to display stats from a wireless |
- | 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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+ | ===== Introduction ===== | ||
+ | |||
+ | xfce4-wavelan-plugin displays the following information about a WaveLAN device: | ||
- | * **[[start# | + | * Signal state (tells if a carrier signal was detected) |
- | * **[[start# | + | * Signal quality (current quality of the carrier signal) |
- | * **[[start# | + | |
- | * **[[start# | + | * Network name (current SSID of the WaveLAN network) |
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+ | At the time of this writing NetBSD, OpenBSD, FreeBSD and Linux are supported. | ||
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+ | It shows signal quality as percentage on Linux and dBm on BSDs, hence progressbar will probably be not really accurate on BSDs, as dBm is hardly comparable to a maximum. | ||
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+ | ---- | ||
===== Usage ===== | ===== Usage ===== | ||
Add the plugin to the panel, and select the wireless interface you want to monitor. | Add the plugin to the panel, and select the wireless interface you want to monitor. | ||
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+ | ---- | ||
===== Screenshot ===== | ===== Screenshot ===== | ||
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===== Latest Release ===== | ===== Latest Release ===== | ||
- | ==== 0.6.1 (2019/ | + | {{rss> |
- | [[http:// | + | |
- | **SHA-256 Hash:** f41f81ea063ae3c7d7904e1ee647a6b5efafc7436f47caed662ee417038eed17 \\ | + | |
- | **SHA-1 Hash:** a2a703bd073ad39d5c1da270feca06120794e433 \\ | + | |
- | **MD5 Hash:** e4e3d5240297253d242464e77f6145df | + | |
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- | ===== Release History ===== | ||
- | ==== 0.5.12 (2015/ | ||
- | * Add strings to translation | + | ===== Source Code Repository ===== |
- | * Use GtkComboBoxText instead of GtkCombo | + | [[https://gitlab.xfce.org/panel-plugins/ |
- | * Use check buttons with mnemonic for hot keys | + | |
- | * Use getifaddrs() instead of popen ("/sbin/ifconfig -a") (bug #10822) | + | |
- | * Remove check for glib 2.14, was released 7 years ago.. | + | |
- | * Make this compile with -Wall -Werror (declarations after statement) | + | |
- | * new translations: | + | |
- | * 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/ | + | ---- |
- | * Translation updates (uk, | + | |
- | ==== 0.5.9 (2012/ | + | ===== Reporting Bugs ===== |
- | * Make the icon optional (bug #7520) | + | * **[[: |
- | ==== 0.5.8 (2012/ | ||
- | * Build the plugin as an external module | ||
- | * Add about dialog | ||
- | ==== 0.5.7 (2012/ | ||
- | * 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) | ||
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- | ==== 0.5.6 (2010/ | ||
- | |||
- | * Support for both xfce 4.6 and 4.8 | ||
- | * Various bug fixes and code cleanup | ||
- | * Translated into 6 more languages (33 total) | ||
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- | ==== 0.5.5 (2009/ | ||
- | * 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 | ||
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- | ==== 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. | ||
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- | ==== 0.5.3 (2006/ | ||
- | * Fix a typo that referenced the wrong executable in the .desktop file. | ||
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- | ==== 0.5.2 (2006/ | ||
- | * 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 | ||
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- | ===== Recent Changes ===== | ||
- | {{rss> | ||
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- | ===== Getting it ===== | ||
- | The normal (and best) way to get the wavelan plugin is to use the package manager or port system of your operating system. | ||
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- | If wavelan isn't available there, or if you want a different version, you can download it in source form from [[http:// | ||
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- | ===== Source Code Repository ===== | ||
- | [[http:// | ||
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- | ===== Reporting Bugs ===== | ||
- | |||
- | Bugs should be reported to the [[http:// | ||
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- | ==== Open Bugs ==== | ||
- | {{rss> | ||
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