[NTLUG:Discuss] WiFi Strength Guage (as SuSE applet)

[Chris Cox]

David Simmons wrote:
>>what is a SuSE applet?
>>What Window Manager or Windowing system are you using?
> 
> SuSE is a Linux distro (I'm sure you know that)...an applet is a small
> 'icon-ish' program that resides on my KDE taskbar.  I've been able to find
> that there is an applet called "Wireless Networking Information" that does
> show a great deal of information.  And you can also use a program called
> "Network Selector" (which is in Internet --> Administration ) if you have
> some of the 'extras' software installed...its pretty nice also.
> 
> Basically was hoping to cram Kismet into an icon, but will do with it
> running in a terminal window.

kwifimanager is ok... but have to click to get the display
that shows what you want.  If you can understand signal/noise
ratios and can accept that, then knemo will work well.  Just
hover over the icon in the tool bar and you can configure what
all it will show you.