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authorJoursoir <chat@joursoir.net>2023-11-14 19:37:00 +0300
committerJoursoir <chat@joursoir.net>2023-11-16 12:34:57 +0300
commit62ea5555e7f3fa53b1cb31fe881c888fc4a27828 (patch)
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parentc23573c831a3504aed83cbf2e904cbd357380fbd (diff)
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ditconfig/polybar: use dynamic network interface detection
As result, provide name of the network interface to polybar instead of interface type.
Diffstat (limited to 'dotconfig/polybar')
-rwxr-xr-xdotconfig/polybar/launch.sh4
-rw-r--r--dotconfig/polybar/modules7
2 files changed, 8 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/dotconfig/polybar/launch.sh b/dotconfig/polybar/launch.sh
index f607575..6a70ea0 100755
--- a/dotconfig/polybar/launch.sh
+++ b/dotconfig/polybar/launch.sh
@@ -7,11 +7,11 @@ killall -9 polybar
while pgrep -u $UID -x polybar >/dev/null; do sleep 1; done
# Set variables
-NETWORK_TYPE="wired" # or `wireless`
+NETWORK_INTERFACE=$(ip route | grep '^default' | awk '{print $5}' | head -n1)
# Launch the bar
echo "---" | tee -a /tmp/mypolybar.log
for m in $(polybar --list-monitors | cut -d":" -f1); do
- MONITOR=$m NETWORK_TYPE=$NETWORK_TYPE polybar main >> /tmp/mypolybar.log 2>&1 & disown
+ MONITOR=$m NETWORK_INTERFACE=$NETWORK_INTERFACE polybar main >> /tmp/mypolybar.log 2>&1 & disown
done
echo "Bar launched..."
diff --git a/dotconfig/polybar/modules b/dotconfig/polybar/modules
index 049e5f3..2cb39a3 100644
--- a/dotconfig/polybar/modules
+++ b/dotconfig/polybar/modules
@@ -237,12 +237,17 @@
[module/network]
type = internal/network
+ ; Name of the network interface to display. You can get the names of the
+ ; interfaces on your machine with `ip link`
+ ; Wireless interfaces often start with `wl` and ethernet interface with `eno` or `eth`
+ interface = ${env:NETWORK_INTERFACE:eno1}
+
; If no interface is specified, polybar can detect an interface of the given type.
; If multiple are found, it will prefer running interfaces and otherwise just
; use the first one found.
; Either 'wired' or 'wireless'
; New in version 3.6.0
- interface-type = ${env:NETWORK_TYPE:wired}
+ ; interface-type = ${env:NETWORK_TYPE:wired}
; Seconds to sleep between updates
interval = 1.0