Iwdgui

Iwdgui is a graphical frontend for iwd, Intel's iNet Wireless Daemon.

Feature overview

• Graphical user interface for iwd, focusing on practical use, making it easy to connect a laptop or desktop to a wifi network.
• Supporting multiple wireless adapters, in different tabs.
• Can provide detailed information: vendor/model of the wireless interface, IP address information, radio standard (802.??), channel, signal strength, etc.
• Iwdgui supports station mode, access point mode, and ad-hoc mode. (The latter two depend on the wireless network interface capabilities)
• Able to manage previously connected networks.

Technical overview

• Iwdgui consists of a single window. in which a user can select the wireless interface, the network to connect to, and get information on a previously connected network.
• Currently iwdgui supports 'station' mode, i.e. the mode in which a laptop or desktop connects to a wireless access point or router.
• Iwdgui and the iwd daemon communicate over a D-Bus connection.

Dependencies

The following software is needed to run iwdgui:

• Python3, as the programming language.
• GTK3, as the graphical toolkit
• PyGObject, which provides the Python bindings for GTK3, GLib, etc.
• Dbus-python for interfacing with iwd over D-Bus.
• Netifaces, to obtain IP address information.

Operating environment prerequisites

• Iwd should be running.
• At least one iwd network interface device should be available, powered on, and configured in station mode.
• Python3, as the programming language.
• GTK3, as the graphical toolkit.
• Dbus-python as Python D-Bus binding.
• Netifaces, to obtain IP address information.

License

Iwdgui is licensed under a BSD-3 license.

Feedback

If you have an enhancement request, or something is not working properly then please log an issue against the project.