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

Annoncements

The project has an alternate blazing fast backend available in beta at https://github.com/Blazzzeee/nm_ui , to use alternate backend install current project with ./install.sh and refer to build instructions of nm_ui

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

Add network_manager_ui as input to your flake in following way

environment.systemPackages = [
  network_manager_ui.packages.x86_64-linux.network_manager_ui
];

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 @maanikhurana1007@gmail.com