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xfce4-wavelan-plugin

Xfce4-wavelan-plugin is used to display stats from a wireless LAN interface.

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Introduction

xfce4-wavelan-plugin displays the following information about a WaveLAN device:

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)

At the time of this writing NetBSD, OpenBSD, FreeBSD and Linux are supported.

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.

Usage

Add the plugin to the panel, and select the wireless interface you want to monitor.

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Latest Release

xfce4-wavelan-plugin 0.7.0 released (2025/05/20 10:48)
xfce4-wavelan-plugin 0.7.0 is now available for download from https://archive.xfce.org/src/panel-plugins/xfce4-wavelan-plugin/0.7/xfce4-wavelan-plugin-0.7.0.tar.xz https://archive.xfce.org/src/panel-plugins/xfce4-wavelan-plugin/0.7/xfce4-wavelan-plugin-0.7.0.tar.xz?sha1 https://archive.xfce.org/src/panel-plugins/xfce4-wavelan-plugin/0.7/xfce4-wavelan-plugin-0.7.0.tar.xz?sha256 What is xfce4-wavelan-plugin? ============================= This plugin is used to display stats from a wireless lan interface (signal state, signal quality, network name (SSID)). It supports NetBSD, OpenBSD, FreeBSD, and Linux. Website: https://docs.xfce.org/panel-plugins/xfce4-wavelan-plugin Release notes for 0.7.0 ======================= Meson has been added as a build system in this release, and the associated archive has been generated by 'meson dist'. Although autotools has been retained for the time being and can still be used via 'autogen.sh', meson is now the preferred build system, and autotools will be removed in a future release. - Update README after switchover to meson - build: Automate copyright year management - Add meson build - Remove unused inline-icons.h - autotools-build: Explicitly require libxfce4util - Translation Updates: Greek, Italian