So the other day when I was using wifi-select (awesome tool) to connect to a friends hot-spot, I realized, “hey! This would be great as an openbox pipe menu!”
I’m fairly decent in bash and I knew both netcfg and wifi-select were in bash so why not rewrite it that way?
Wifi-Pipe 🔗
A simplified version of wifi-select which will scan for networks and populate an openbox right-click menu item with available networks. Displays security type and signal strength. Click on a network to connect via netcfg the same way wifi-select does it.
Zenity is used to ask for a password and notify of a bad connection. One can optionally remove the netcfg profile if the connection fails.
Requirements 🔗
- netcfg
- zenity
- A
NOPASSWDentry in sudoers for this script - An entry in your
menu.xml
The script now has its own github repo so it doesn’t fall victim to bitrot. Please head there for more installation details and a copy of the source.