Managing wifi in Enlightenment

So I’ve been using Fedora on my media center PC for many years now; initially with GNOME but the new versions of their UI drive me mad so I switched it to Enlightenment a few years back. :slight_smile: I just did some hardware upgrades and now this system is using wifi instead of ethernet (actually was an external wifi to ethernet adapter previously) but I’m having some trouble figuring out what I can use to configure the network connection here.

On my laptop I use connman/econnman, which works well for me, but that doesn’t seem to be in the Fedora repos and I’d prefer to avoid compiling anything from source on this system. (That’s part of why I switched away from GNOME, needed too much extra software from third-party sources to make it usable)

Enlightenment itself seems to be trying to call to the gnome-control-center, but that is failing with an error message saying it is only supported under GNOME and Unity…I assume there’s some system config telling it to use that because otherwise I’m not sure why it thinks that would work…

Right now I got it connected just using nmcli, so I could probably stick that line in my .profile or something, but it’d be nice to have an icon in the dock for it…this PC is my TV and I mostly navigate it with a gamepad so CLI stuff is a bit of a hassle.

If it matters, I’m still on X, not Wayland, due to some accessibility features being absent on Wayland.

Fedora has nm-connection-editor a alternative to edit network connections in Gnome.

Give it a try and see if you can use it.

On Opensuse it says there is a applet to install. I do not know if you have access to that.

The easiest way to get wireless in Enlightenment is to install a Network Manager Applet, load the systray module in enlightenment and add systray to your shelf.

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nm-connection-editor does let me edit the config but doesn’t seem to let me connect or disconnect or scan for wifi networks…so not really what I’m looking for.

nm-applet does do what I want, the only issue is I have to use stalonetray to get it displayed, and then it just drops a tiny icon in the corner of my screen instead of sitting in the Enlightenment shelf. Seems like that can only be fixed by recompiling nm-applet to use AppIndicator. So that’s usable but still a bit annoying :slight_smile:

Yes I am aware of nmcli, I mentioned it in my original post… :slight_smile: