Easy Graphic Wifi App

bunk · 2009-03-20 02:22:59

Hello arch forum dwellers,

I recently switched to arch to enjoy the sweetness of a compiz standalone setup. I am using AWN as my window dock. My current problem, I want an easy graphic wifi manager. I was thinking gnome's network manager would work, but I don't know how to launch it without a panel. I looked at wicd, but I need an easy autoconfig tool. My school has about 9000 access points and I move around and use a lot of them. I don't want to sit and create a ton of configs by hand. Anyone know of a good GUI wifi tool I could use. I saw there was an experimental AWN app, but that was said to be very flaky.

mcmillan · 2009-03-20 02:39:42

All the gui wifi apps I know of go through the panel tray. wicd is pretty nice, but also uses a client that goes into a panel tray which you probably just weren't seeing. There's options that can give you this within the standalone compiz, the only one I've used is pypanel which I thought will do what it needs without any fuss to configure.

Also if you just need someplace to be tray icons like this stalonetray will give you this, which I used for a while.

Inxsible · 2009-03-20 03:13:03

I would recommend wicd too. you can start up the client by

wicd-client

it lists all the available networks and you can select anyone to connect to.

SiC · 2009-03-20 03:17:51

I have a similar issue with university each AP has a different name, I use WICD on both my machines, and if you run wicd-client it has a nice gui interface and tray icon. You aren't really going to find anything simpler IMO.

bunk · 2009-03-20 03:38:13

I'll look at wicd. I haven't actually tried it yet. I just read a wiki and it seemed like it was something you'd have to create profiles to use. I don't want to sit and manually create a bunch of profiles.

Inxsible · 2009-03-20 03:42:07

bunk wrote:

I'll look at wicd. I haven't actually tried it yet. I just read a wiki and it seemed like it was something you'd have to create profiles to use. I don't want to sit and manually create a bunch of profiles.

use it. you will be pleasantly surprised

bunk · 2009-03-20 05:16:33

consider this solved

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Easy Graphic Wifi App

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