FIREWALL-APPLET(1)

✨ FIREWALL-APPLET — the firewalld applet, bestie edition ✨

okay so you know how your firewall is out here doing the absolute most and you wanna see it? that's this. it's firewall-applet, a whole princess in your system tray, living in the firewall-applet section 1 of the manual 💖

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🌸 NAME 🌸

firewall-applet — the firewalld applet 🎀

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🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

firewall-applet [OPTIONS...]

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💅 DESCRIPTION 💅

ngl the description is short and it ate: firewall-applet is a tray applet for firewalld. that's it, that's the girl. she sits in your tray and vibes. 👑

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✨ OPTIONS ✨

real talk: firewall-applet does not support any special options. she's low maintenance, she doesn't need anything from you. 🙈

but the following options ARE supported:

• -h, --help — prints a short help text and then exits. that's the whole thing, bestie, she just tells you what she knows and dips. 😭

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🎀 QSETTINGS 🎀

so firewall-applet has extra settings to adapt the look and feel ✨. it uses QSettings and stores them in ~/.config/firewall/applet.conf. the file is automatically reloaded if it has been changed — meaning the new settings will immediately be effective. no restart, no drama, she's just like that. 💅

there's also the global config file /etc/firewall/applet.conf, which contains the default values. important though: the settings in this file will be overloaded by settings in the user settings file. so your personal file wins. main character energy fr fr. 👑

here's an example applet.conf file:

[General]
notifications=true
show-inactive=true

and here are all the settings she supports:

• notifications — the applet shows notifications if enabled. you can also enable this setting inside the applet itself with the "Enable Notifications" checkbox in the right mouse menu. 🖱️
  • this setting defaults to false.
  • if notifications are shown, these are the actions she'll ping you about (when enabled):
    • Connection to firewalld established
    • Connection to firewalld lost
    • Firewall has been reloaded
    • Default zone has been changed
    • Panic mode has been enabled or disabled
    • Activation, deactivation or change of zones bound to interfaces
    • Activation, deactivation or change of zones bound to sources addresses
• show-inactive — show the applet also if firewalld is not running. if firewalld has been stopped or is not running, the applet will be hidden and not visible in the applet tray. enable this setting to see the applet all the time — for example to be sure that the firewall is active. 🫶
  • this setting defaults to false.
• shields-up — the shields-up zone name to be used if shields-up is enabled. 🛡️
  • this setting defaults to 'block'.
• shields-down — the shields-down zone name to be used if shields-up has been deactivated again.
  • this setting defaults to 'public'.
• blink — if enabled, the applet icon blinks in these cases: ✨
  • Connection to firewalld lost
  • Panic mode has been enabled or disabled
  • this setting defaults to false.
• blink-count — the number of blinks if blink is enabled. 🔥
  • this setting defaults to 5.

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💜 SEE ALSO 💜

the whole friend group, periodt:

firewall-applet(1), firewalld(1), firewall-cmd(1), firewall-config(1), firewalld.conf(5), firewalld.direct(5), firewalld.dbus(5), firewalld.icmptype(5), firewall-offline-cmd(1), firewalld.richlanguage(5), firewalld.service(5), firewalld.zone(5), firewalld.zones(5), firewalld.policy(5), firewalld.policies(5), firewalld.ipset(5), firewalld.helper(5)

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🌈 NOTES 🌈

firewalld home page — go say hi, iykyk:

• http://firewalld.org

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👑 AUTHORS 👑

the icons who made this happen, no cap:

• Thomas Woerner <twoerner@redhat.com> — Developer
• Jiri Popelka <jpopelka@redhat.com> — Developer
• Eric Garver <eric@garver.life> — Developer

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and that's the whole page bestie!! this one's from firewalld 2.5.2 and it's the FIREWALL-APPLET(1) manual — go forth and let your tray icon slay 💖🌸🦋