WIFI icon cannot display the change of the signal intensity

wuqso · May 15, 2020, 5:12am

The WIFI icon on the right of the topbar cannot display the change of the signal intensity when I take my laptop to different distances from the WIFI router.

jpbn · May 15, 2020, 5:51am

you mean this is a bug, or would you like it did?

wuqso · May 15, 2020, 7:19am

I don’t like it. It should be a bug.

jpbn · May 15, 2020, 7:59am

@wuqso you should file a bug report at https://bugzilla.redhat.com/ You will need to login or sign up.

ankursinha · May 15, 2020, 8:20am

Hrm, Mine on a Fedora 32 workstation definitely does. More information please: what desktop environment and Fedora version are you on?

No, you can just use your Fedora account on Bugzilla too (the same one you are using to log into Ask Fedora). This doc provides steps on filing good bugs:

wuqso · May 15, 2020, 9:26am

I’m using Fedora 32 workstation and wayland windowing system.

ankursinha · May 15, 2020, 11:23am

That’s odd. It seems to work for me on the Fedora 32 workstation with Wayland:

I don’t know where to start debugging this. This is all NetworkManger, with Gnome-shell only doing the last display bit. Does nmcli dev wifi show signal strength, for example?