XNetworkStrength

About

I wrote this because I would often find myself losing signal on my wireless card in my laptop when I was sitting in various places. This shows me what my signal strength is, so that I know what position is a good one to have the laptop in. It's small, and fast, and only uses the X11 API.

Stripped, the compiled file size (on my slackware 8 system) comes to 10.5kbytes. Nice and tiny. =)

Enjoy, It's Free Software.

Getting

Release Date Release Source tarball
November 6th, 2002 0.4.2 xnetworkstrength-0.4.2.tar.gz (11kB) (patch [2kB]) - Enhanced to include more monitoring information.
June 22nd, 2002 0.4.1 xnetworkstrength-0.4.1.tar.gz - fixed the lack of XSetWMProperties. Window managers should be able to make it happy now. Minor bug.
March 19th, 2002 0.4.0 xnetworkstrength-0.4.0.tar.gz - fixed a memory leak and added a change log
December 8th, 2001 0.3.1 xnetworkstrength-0.3.1.tar.gz - fixed make file, and added flexibility.
December 8th, 2001 0.3.0 xnetworkstrength-0.3.0.tar.gz, 10KB.

Requirements

  • A Linux kernel with Wireless Extensions compiled in,
  • The X11 Windowing System,
  • A wireless card whose driver writes information to /proc/net/wireless


Gabriel Cain, gabriel@bigdam.net Last modified: October 14th, 2001. Copyright Gabriel Cain 2001 ©