Netctltray version 0.3

Netctltray is an application that provides a system tray icon for the netctl network manager. Via the system icon you can change profile and get query the status of the current connection.

Installation

Requirements

Requirements with a * are optional

• Window manager with freedesktop.org system tray specification implemented.
• Python3 : Main programming language.
• PySide : Python interface to Qt.
• netctl : Network management.
• sudo* : Default option for acquiring permissions to run netctl. Sudo will run with the -A flag that runs the password entry program in $SUDO_ASKPASS
• x11-ssh-askpass* : Default option for querying the sudo password.

These requirements can be easily met by running:

# pacman -S python python-pyside
# pacman -S sudo x11-ssh-askpass

Installation

Options

Command line options

• -h, --help

  Show the help message.

• -6, --ipv6

  Prefer ipv6 over ipv4 when showing the status.

• -S, --sudo COMMAND

  Use the command COMMAND for getting root permissions. By default this is command is sudo -A and it assumes that you have set the SUDO_ASKPASS environment variable. It is tested with ssh-askpass as askpass program.

• -N, --netctl PATH

  Location of the netctl binary. By default this is just netctl and thus assumes it to be in $PATH.

• -R, --nroot PATH

  Root of the netctl configuration directory. By default this /etc/netctl.

Some notes

• When an interface already has an active profile the active profile will be stopped prior to the start of the new profile.

• netctl.py can also work with flexible interfaces but it does this in a naive way. It runs the script and imports the $Interface variable and uses that as interface.

• You can change the icons if you want for a better integration with your WM. Just change the svg files.

Author(s)

• Mart (mart@martlubbers.net).

Changelog

• Version 0.2a (2015-02-13)

  • Fixed inet bug
  • Fixed bug with resources, it now searches in the path defined by the RESOURCE variable in netctltray.py

• Version 0.2 (2015-02-12)

  • Rewritten menu.
  • Remove logging.
  • Added checkmark icon for active networks.
  • Added password question for network changes.
  • Added more information to readme.

• Version 0.1 (2015-01-05)

  • Initial script.
  • README.md created.