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

[Terry]

On 10/20/05, Terry <trryhend at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 10/19/05, Chris Cox <cjcox at acm.org> wrote:
> > 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.
> >
>
> My slackware system comes with KWiFiManager 3.3.2 and the default
> installation puts it's signal meter in the kicker bar in the lower
> right corner of the screen, (next to the clock) and it shows the
> little bars and real time signal strength percentage at all times.  It
> appears that from the first time you start it, the signal strength
> meter perpetually stays in the kicker bar from then on, each time you
> boot up, it's  always there.
> Works very nicely. I could send a screenshot if you  like.
>

And if you click on the signal meter in the kicker bar, it brings up
the full sized kwifimanager window so that you can use it's functions
or other features and change configuration or switch to another access
point, etc.
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