linssid-pkexec(1)

📦 version 3.6, in debian bookworm, debian trixie, ubuntu jammy, ubuntu noble, ubuntu questing, ubuntu resolute

💖 linssid-pkexec 💖

okay bestie, so this is the manual for linssid-pkexec, aka the graphical wireless scanner — yes that's literally the manual name, we're starting strong 💅

✨ NAME ✨

linssid-pkexec — graphical wireless scanner

🌈 DESCRIPTION 🌈

LinSSID runs over X Window and shows you all the 802.11 wireless attach points and ad hoc networks that are locally receivable. like, it just sees them. for you. 🫶

There's a table on screen stuffed with all kinds of parameters — MAC address, channel, signal strength, the whole vibe. And there are graphs too, plotting signal strength by channel AND signal strength over time. it's giving data, it's giving visuals, it's giving everything. ✨

ngl, LinSSID is graphically and functionally similar to inSSIDer (that's the Microsoft Windows one) and Wifi Analyzer (the Android one). if you know, you know 😌

You can use LinSSID to measure the local performance, or to hunt down an interference free channel to set in a wireless router (access point). and here's the iconic part: the wireless established link won't be affected by these operations, because LinSSID needn't set the monitor mode in network interface. no disruption, no drama, just receipts. 👑

🎀 Some features 🎀

  • Table of locally receivable attach points with many columns of different information and sortable and movable columns. yes, you can drag them around, main character energy fr fr 💅
  • Adjustable speed, real-time update. ⚡
  • Graphs of signal strength by channel and over time. 📈
  • AP bandwidth displayed. 🍓
  • Works on both 2.4 GHz and 5 GHz channels. both?? slay. 🌸

🔥 RUNNING 🔥

okay so here's the thing — the wireless tools that LinSSID uses require root privilege to access. that's just the rules, we don't make them 😭

So it uses policykit when running. To run it, just type linssid-pkexec as a non-root user. that's it. that's the whole move. 🧚

linssid-pkexec

💜 AUTHOR 💜

The LinSSID was written by Warren Severin <wseverin@warsev.com>. The homepage is https://sourceforge.net/projects/linssid. go give it a look bestie, it's where the lore lives 🦋

This manual page was written by Joao Eriberto Mota Filho <eriberto@debian.org> for the Debian project (but may be used by others). bestie did the docs, we love to see it 🫶

and that's the whole page, babes — this is version linssid-pkexec-3.6, dated 11 Oct 2018. old but iconic, periodt. ⭐💖

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