About the project

A better way to do wifi menu

The project is primarily aimed at people that are newbs to linux distros and want a generic solution for whatever window manager , or desktop environment they hope on, worrying about ui for wifi menu is annoying , also gtk, qt implementation look wierd and old to me , other options lack either proper pre configured ui or have a shady look or are non functional in their performance charts . This tries to act as your prefferred way by solving all the problems.

If you are looking for a plug and play utility to manage wifi and ethernet connections , network_manager_ui might be the choice for you

This project uses rofi as a ui library and python script as backend to create a seamless, beautiful, elegant and working network manager

If you dont like system tray implementations such as nm_appllet , nm_ui is worth considering

Other implementations such as network_manager_rofi is very slow and inefficent .

Also since the project uses rofi , using Search functionality saves you alot of mouse effort

Demonstration

Theming

The menu comes in four diffrent flavours or themes which are references to great color palletes

1.Catppuccin Mocha



2. Nord - Arctic vibes



3. Rospine - Sooho Vibes



4. Monochrome - Minimalism

To change themes go to ~/.config/rofi/wifi/config.rasi and change theme name to whatever you like

Installation

Installation Guide- Dependencies- rofi, or rofi-wayland if you are on wayland , NetworkManager , Python3 , pinentry-gtk(default) or pinentry-qt Some form of notification system (ex if you are on a wlroots based compositor swaync)

For Arch linux

If you are on arch-based system

sudo pacman -Syy rofi-wayland networkmanager python3 pinentry swaync --needed

For Ubuntu/Debian

sudo apt update && sudo apt install network-manager python3 pinentry swaync

If you are on wayland , The rofi-wayland fork is not available on debian based systems from apt , build it from source instead
https://github.com/in0ni/rofi-wayland

If you using X11 based Window Manager , install rofi instead .

sudo apt install rofi

For nixOS

Files have been included by the help of j-baker, this has not been included in the install script for nixOS, manual install is required

For Fedora

sudo dnf install rofi-wayland NetworkManager python3 pinentry swaync

On Fedora if you have X11 based WM ,instead install rofi instead of rofi-wayland

Install

git clone https://github.com/Blazzzeee/network_manager_ui.git
cd network_manager_ui
./install.sh

Usage

Run the menu by calling network_manager as a keybind or from your panel such as waybar , polybar etc , without any system tray , don't forget to restart terminal after installation :D

network_manager

For any issues contact me at @[email protected]