[SOLVED] Installing i3 (no DE, only i3), where can I find nm-applet??

bashM0nk3y · 2018-06-08 20:54:31

After quite a bit of searching around, I keep hearing about people using 'nm-applet' on i3-wm || i3-gaps, and am having trouble even finding the pkg.

Is this part of NetworkManager? # truth be told, i'm not really sure which pkg correlates to the 'NetworkManager.service'. Which my main machine uses (Plasma 5).

After the command '..$ pacman -Ss nm-applet' returned with no results I thought I would at least be able to get the PKGBUILD for nm-applet and just makepkg it, but no luck there either as I couldn't find the pkg at all.

I am setting up a simple ssh server with a new-ish albeit lower-grade laptop, so resources are at a premium. Hence the absence of a DE...

I guess I could always use

..# wpa_supplicant -B -i wlp1s0 -c <(wpa_passphrase <SSID> <PSK>)

but it would be nice to have a GUI-ish network manager.

I've also thought about just using wicd || wicd-curses or maybe connman w/ cmst, but i'm just not really sure what is the best fit for this application. I will keep this machine at home, so it will rarely (if ever) need to be configured for more than one wireless network. Also, said laptop only has a wireless NIC.. no RJ45 jack.

Any recommendations would be greatly appreciated!

EDIT:
I've also built the networkmanager-dmenu-git pkg (from AUR iirc, might actually be an official arch pkg tho) on said system. Maybe this is what I need?

Last edited by bashM0nk3y (2018-06-17 04:38:13)

ewaller · 2018-06-08 21:19:47

Are you running i3-bar ? i3 does not have a native place for a tray except in i3-bar. On my system, I use wpa-gui as my interface to wpa-supplicant. You could do the same thing with NetworkManager.

The explicit answer to your question as to where it is is in the WIKI on the NetworkManager page under front-ends.

bashM0nk3y · 2018-06-08 21:28:56

Thanks for the quick reply!

To the best of my knowledge, no, I am not running i3-bar (nor can I find it in the official or aur repos..??). I somewhat ignorantly assumed i3-status acted as a system tray, to be honest.

Thanks for the tip about wpa-gui tho!

EDIT:
I seem to be unable to find the 'wpa-gui' pkg as well.. I must be doing something wrong

Last edited by bashM0nk3y (2018-06-08 21:34:17)

Trilby · 2018-06-08 21:46:47

$ pacman -Fs nm-applet NetworkManager.service wpa-gui
extra/network-manager-applet 1.8.12-1
    usr/bin/nm-applet
extra/networkmanager 1.10.8-1
    usr/lib/systemd/system/NetworkManager.service

You may also be interested in this:
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/wpa_supplicant_gui/

Last edited by Trilby (2018-06-08 21:47:53)

bashM0nk3y · 2018-06-08 21:54:28

nice! this seems similar to the 'what-provides' option in rpm based distros (i dont remember the actual switches)

Thanks again, guys.

@ewaller, did you write the wpa_supplicant_gui pkg? I see you're the maintainer.. Respect!

Last edited by bashM0nk3y (2018-06-08 21:56:27)

ewaller · 2018-06-09 02:40:07

No, I just picked it up when it was orphaned so it had some love. Have not needed to do much.

isolde · 2018-06-09 04:52:50

bashM0nk3y Hi! The package that you are looking for is network-manager-applet :
sudo pacman -S network-manager-applet
Don't forget to add it to your Autostart section of i3 config file [home hidden file]
using your text editor:
exec --no-startup-id nm-applet
You'll need to log off or reboot.
I3 needs i3 status and i3 blocks to show the information that you want to see.

Last edited by isolde (2018-06-09 05:42:24)

bashM0nk3y · 2018-06-10 23:32:22

isolde wrote:

bashM0nk3y Hi! The package that you are looking for is network-manager-applet :
sudo pacman -S network-manager-applet
Don't forget to add it to your Autostart section of i3 config file [home hidden file]
using your text editor:
exec --no-startup-id nm-applet
You'll need to log off or reboot.
I3 needs i3 status and i3 blocks to show the information that you want to see.

Thanks!

I similarly recently added

exec_always --no-startup-id feh /path/to/wallpaper

to the end of my i3 config file. Nice to be able to just $mod+Shift+r to change the wallpaper, hence the 'exec_always'.

Can you have multiple 'exec' type commands in this file? Thought I read somewhere about how only the first 'exec' would be executed, but I may very well be getting my wires crossed with some other unrelated conf file.

circleface · 2018-06-10 23:52:02

bashM0nk3y wrote:

Thought I read somewhere about how only the first 'exec' would be executed, but I may very well be getting my wires crossed with some other unrelated conf file.

That is true for .xinitrc if you use startx. I'm pretty sure i3 can contain more than one exec.

Trilby · 2018-06-11 01:31:21

bashM0nk3y wrote:

I may very well be getting my wires crossed with some other unrelated conf file.

Yes, but not with another conf file: i3's configuration file is a configuration file, not a shell script; ~/.xinitrc is a shell script. The only relation to the i3 configuration option exec_always and the shell command `exec` is that they share 4 letters in their name.

isolde · 2018-06-16 16:02:25

Hello bashM0nk3y!
Sorry for the late reply. Yes, you can add as many exec files to your i3 config file as you want to boot.
I have a header in my i3 config file : #Autostart . To this I add exec files or exec_always as the case
may be. It is easier to find them should I want to change paths... which, I do for different distributions
of i3wm. The good news is that i3 is i3 across the board. No matter which distribution you use. Glad to
see you use $Mod + Shift + r. Enjoy i3.

bashM0nk3y · 2018-06-16 20:29:25

isolde wrote:

Hello bashM0nk3y!
Sorry for the late reply. Yes, you can add as many exec files to your i3 config file as you want to boot.
I have a header in my i3 config file : #Autostart . To this I add exec files or exec_always as the case
may be. It is easier to find them should I want to change paths... which, I do for different distributions
of i3wm. The good news is that i3 is i3 across the board. No matter which distribution you use. Glad to
see you use $Mod + Shift + r. Enjoy i3.

No worries and thanks for the info!

Quite a bit of i3's keyboard shortcuts are fairly intuitive once they start to work there way into muscle memory. Don't ya just love being able to do certain task or open a certain application without even having to really think about? Who needs a mouse...

isolde · 2018-06-17 03:45:33

Yes, bashM0nk3y, I do appreciate all the advantages of i3. It is a pleasure to use. Those commands will
become 2nd nature and you will be able to speed along performing your tasks. As you say, it offers
many benefits. i3 config is your command central. Don't be afraid to use it. Best wishes.

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[SOLVED] Installing i3 (no DE, only i3), where can I find nm-applet??

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