Re: which X11 app can show wifi info
On Wed 15 Jun 2022 at 03:30:53 (+0200), Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> On 2022-06-14 15:43:40 +0100, Brian wrote:
> > On Tue 14 Jun 2022 at 13:15:56 +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> > > No issues with iwlist and nmcli.
> >
> > /usr/sbin/wpa_gui and /sbin/wpa_cli should both give sensible outputs
> > when run as root.
>
> For security reasons, I don't want to run them as root.
Then don't run them? You can put wpa_cli status into sudoers
so that it will only run with that command.
> The iwlist and nmcli utilities don't need root to work correctly.
Run them then? I wasn't aware that iwlist would tell the OP
which AP is the connected one.
I presume nmcli is something to do with NetworkManager, which
I've never installed. But, as I wrote earlier, "I would have
thought that the program by which you connect would be able
to show you all the information it, by definition, knows about
the connection that it set up."
For most machines, I now use iwd, like Celejar.
Cheers,
David.
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