Description:

gnomednsswitcher 1.3.0

Gnome appindicator dns switcher
https://pypi.org/project/gnome-dns-switcher/


Gnome appindicator (toolbar icon) tool to quickly switch between different DNS servers

Easily available in your toolbox
Config file to specify DNS servers
Supports multiple connections and switching them separately
Utility button to restart NetworkManager



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Easily available in your toolbar

Shows you what it's done, no surprises

Supports multiple connections and switching them separately


Setup
Install dependencies
# If you don't yet have pip3:
sudo apt install python3-pip

# Install dependencies to run this application
sudo apt install python3-gi python3-gi-cairo gir1.2-gtk-3.0 gir1.2-appindicator3-0.1

Install gnome-dns-switcher
# sudo so the script is added to $PATH, you can also install normally and fix $PATH :)
sudo pip3 install gnome-dns-switcher

# Generate a default configuration
gnome-dns-switcher generate-config

# Modify the config to your needs. See config documentation below
edit ~/.config/gnome-dns-switcher.yml

Usage
Start the app in the background
Simply add & after your command
gnome-dns-switcher &

Specify a different configuration file (default is ~/.config/gnome-dns-switcher.yml)
gnome-dns-switcher --config /path/to/config.yml

Add to startup applications
# Sleep 10 seconds before starting to prevent starting up
# before network connections have been made
bash -c 'sleep 10 && gnome-dns-switcher --config ~/.config/gnome-dns-switcher.yml'

Config
The config file allows you to specify which DNS servers to show and what devices are visible.
By default, gnome-dns-switcher looks for a config file at ~/.config/gnome-dns-switcher.yml
To generate and example configuration, you can run gnome-dns-switcher generate-config
The generated configuration will look like this:
servers: # DNS Server options to show
# DHCP is always shown as the first option
Quad9: 9.9.9.9
CloudFlare: [1.1.1.1, 1.0.0.1]
Google DNS:
- 8.8.8.8
- 8.8.4.4
devices: [] # Specify device names here if you want to hide certain devices (ip link show)

servers A list of servers that can be switched between

The name is only used for displaying
You can define one or more ips, as a yaml array or as a comma-seperated string

devices Which devices to show (optional)

optional, will display all non-bridge connections if not present or empty
one or more devices to show in the switcher

List all your devices by running ip link show in a terminal



Development
Setup
Set up virtualenv:
virtualenv venv
source venv/bin/activate

Install dependencies:
python setup.py install
pip install vext vext.gi

Running
python -m gnome_dns_switcher

Useful links

https://gjs-docs.gnome.org/

License

For personal and professional use. You cannot resell or redistribute these repositories in their original state.

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