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romanbird
Asked: 2013-07-29 05:08:01 +0800 CST

reset wireless keyboard shortcut

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I would like to define a keyboard shortcut that resets my wireless adapter. I know it is possible in the terminal with sudo ifconfig, but for the keyboard shortcut, I can't provide the password for sudo.

Are there other commands that can do the job without root privileges?

wireless

3 Answers

  1. Network Manager has a nice CLI tool, nmcli, that does not require root privilege. You can reset wifi with

    nmcli radio wifi off && nmcli radio wifi on
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  2. wifi off
wifi on

    seems to do the job. I wanted also to splash some text to the foreground but it's not so important. Any ideas about how to do that?

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  3. No they are not, but you can call gksudo instead of sudo to have a window showed up that asks for your password.

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