nicferrier / emacs-nm

Emacs interface to Gnome's Network Manager

Gnome Network Manager

My laptop started misbehaving, or Gnome Network Manager's graphical user interface did.

I resorted to nmcli, the Network Manager command line tool. It's a bit baroque.

So here is a simple little Emacs Lisp interface to nmcli.

Installing

It's in marmalade - add marmalade as a package repository and then do:

M-x package-install [RET] gnomenm [RET]

Commands

Here are the useful commands:

gnomenm-connect ap

Connect to a specific ap.

gnomenm-disconnect

Disconnect from the current Access Point.

gnomenm-flip

Flip the AP to the last but one connected to.

If you don't have two APs in the history it does nothing.

This is really useful if you switch between a pair of APs like I do. I recommend using a keychord like:

 (key-chord-define-global "90"  'gnomenm-flip)

See http://www.emacswiki.org/KeyChord for details on KeyChord.

gnomenm-status

What's the network status?

gnomenm-toggle-enabled &optional status

Toggle whether networking is enabled or not.

emacs-nm's Issues

Dependency issue, undefined functions, and old nmcli interface

Hi,

There's a package dependency issue in that it doesn't include "s" as a dependency when installing.

Also, for love nor money, I can not find the either ->> or -keep in any elisp packages. What do I need to require for these functions to work? This is a bit of a show stopper for me.

I've been busy patching up the code to work with the latest version of nmcli which has different commands. How best might we support the different versions?

Cheers,

Matt.

nmcli changed its interface

Hi nic. it seems that nmcli changed its interface : the "nm" object vanished and some other options seem to have changed. I guess the more reliable way is to use dbus, which is what @tromey does at https://github.com/tromey/emacs-network-manager

as an example I wrote a dbus version of your (gnomenm/connected) function. (I'm not 100% sure I'm doing it right,but I guess it's not too far)

(require 'NetworkManager)
(defun gnomenm-dbus//get-prop (property &optional path interface)
  (dbus-get-property NetworkManager-bus
                     NetworkManager-service
                     (or path NetworkManager-path)
                     (or interface NetworkManager-interface)
                     property))
(defun gnomenm-dbus//PrimaryConnection ()
  (gnomenm-dbus//get-prop "PrimaryConnection"))

(defun gnomenm-dbus/connected ()
  "What AP are we currently connected to?"
  (and
   (NetworkManager-connected-p)
   (equal (gnomenm-dbus//get-prop "PrimaryConnectionType")
          "802-11-wireless")
   (gnomenm-dbus//get-prop
    "Id"
    (gnomenm-dbus//PrimaryConnection)
    "org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.Connection.Active")))