[Goodies-dev] [Bug 9076] [PATCH] Run command to return network device to listen to

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https://bugzilla.xfce.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9076

--- Comment #5 from Miguel Guedes <miguel.a.guedes at gmail.com> ---
(In reply to comment #4)
> Hi Miguel,
> 
> This is not portable (on my system I have wlan0 and em1), and since the user
> needs to craft his own script it's a no-go.
> 
> As a power-user you might do something like:
> 
> sed -i "s/\(Network_Device=\).*/\\1$(test -z `ifconfig em1|grep -i 'inet
> addr'` && echo 'wlan0' || echo 'em1')/" ~/.config/xfce4/panel/netload-*.rc
> kill -USR1 $(pidof xfce4-netload-plugin)
> 

I like this way! :)

> But as a user you don't want to, hence this option doesn't have its place
> here.
> 
> Of course it could be interesting to have the user select the interface in
> the option dialog, and why not also in the context menu of the panel plugin
> (right click). It could also try to detect which interface is up and have an
> option to automatically select that interface.

Good idea!
> 
> Well, the point of this bug is to reduce the effort to select the right
> network interface for the user, and as already pointed out there are two
> bugs for this issue: bug 3880, or bug 7431 (this one is more close to bug
> 7431).

Makes perfect sense, Mike. Thanks!

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