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? -- The key to getting good answers is to ask good questions. _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org 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@lists.fedoraproject.org
