This GNOME extension (v2) is simply showing current private IP in GNOME shell status bar if Network Manager is used. It has a popup menu to select manually the network device to display if several are activated on the machine. It supports both IPv4 and IPv6. Possibility to display public IP. Button for copying IP address into clipboard. Available in English and French.
Standard IPv4 address. Button for copying address to clipboard.
Support for IPv6 syntax
Preferences menu for activating Public IP display (not displayed by default)
IP display in GNOME dropdown menu instead of GNOME shell status bar (not selected by default)
The extension is available from the extensions.gnome.org website. Visit the following link for instructions.
https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/941/show-ip/
The extension can be installed directly from source, either for the convenience of using git or to test the latest version.
Dependencies:
- git
- glib2 (for glib-compile-schemas)
- gettext (for msgfmt)
Clone the desire branch with git and compile schema and locales
git clone https://github.com/sgaraud/gnome-extension-show-ip.git \
~/.local/share/gnome-shell/extensions/show-ip@sgaraud.github.com
cd ~/.local/share/gnome-shell/extensions/show-ip@sgaraud.github.com
glib-compile-schemas ./schemas/
msgfmt locale/fr/LC_MESSAGES/show-ip.po -o locale/fr/LC_MESSAGES/show-ip.mo
A shell reload is required Alt+F2 r Enter and extension
has to be enabled with gnome-tweak-tool
😅 Bugs should be reported to the Github bug tracker issues.
- sgaraud (Sylvain Garaud)
- rigelk (Pierre-Antoine Rault)
- RaphaelRochet (Raphaël Rochet)
- paddatrapper (Kyle Robbertze)
- pabs3 (Paul Wise)
- lkundrak (Lubomir Rintel)
Copyright (C) 2015 Sylvain Garaud
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