On Thu, 16 Apr 2020 21:54:37 +0800 Ed Greshko <ed.greshko@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 2020-04-16 21:41, Ranjan Maitra wrote: > > Dear friends, > > > > Sorry, this is OT but I thought that some of you might have suggestions. > > > > I want to have an on-screen indicator in the form of a icon or something that is blinking red if vpn is disconnected and steady green if vpn is up. Could also be extended to other features but right now let us go with this. > > > > The reason I need this is because the Cisco icon (that I need for VPN because of required third-party 2FA) is very tiny and almost impossible to see. It is time-consuming and distracting to constantly have to hover over the icon to see whether it says Connected and Disconnected. > > > > So, I am thinking of a small script that will check every second (say) if VPN is on or off and then display accordingly. The script part, I think I can write on my own. It is what th script will do/call that i am having trouble with. So any suggestions as to what I could do. > > > > Now, I am aware that I can perhaps get something like conky to be set up for this, but I was hoping to have something far simpler. But I do not quite know how to do the simple display part. > > > > My apologies again that this has nothing to do with Fedora, but I come as a proud and happy user of its 31 editions. > > > > Many thanks and best wishes, > > US-East is a OpenVPN connection of mine. > > When the VPN is disconnected > > [egreshko@meimei ~]$ nmcli connection show --active | grep US-East | echo $? > 1 > > When the VPN is connected > > [egreshko@meimei ~]$ nmcli connection show --active | grep US-East | echo $? > 0 > > Is that the sort of thing you're looking for? Thanks, yours is the script part. I am looking to feed this into an indicator which will blink red when 1 (in your case) and be steady green when 0 (in your example). Many thanks again for any suggestions, Ranjan _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
