Feature req: Show/Hide wifi status in menu

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#85 opened on Oct 13, 2016 1 comment 0 reactions 0 assignees View on GitHub

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Difficulty: 4/5
Estimated time: 3-5 days
Newbie friendliness: 25/100

Issue type: Feature
Clarity: Needs clarification
Activity status: Stale
Tech stack: bash, shell
Domain: cli, operating-systems

Research direction

Start with the Network preferences behavior and the defaults system, using the com.apple.systemuiserver settings and NSStatusItem Visible com.apple.menuextra.airport key shown in the issue. Determine the command-line incantation that toggles the Wi-Fi menu-bar status, then verify that the setting changes as expected.

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Description

enhancement

Not sure if this is easy/hard/impossible, but I'd like a scripted way to toggle the "Show Wi-Fi status in menu bar" setting from the Network preferences screen. I think this uses the defaults system and updates something like NSStatusItem Visible com.apple.menuextra.airport" = 1; but I don't know the proper incantation to simulate the Preferences Pane behavior via command line.

  "com.apple.systemuiserver" =     {
        "NSStatusItem Visible Siri" = 0;
        "NSStatusItem Visible com.apple.menuextra.airport" = 1;
        "NSStatusItem Visible com.apple.menuextra.battery" = 1;
        "NSStatusItem Visible com.apple.menuextra.bluetooth" = 1;
        "NSStatusItem Visible com.apple.menuextra.clock" = 1;
        "NSStatusItem Visible com.apple.menuextra.textinput" = 1;
        "__NSEnableTSMDocumentWindowLevel" = 1;
        "last-messagetrace-stamp" = "497807700.002411";
        menuExtras =         (
            "/System/Library/CoreServices/Menu Extras/Clock.menu",
            "/System/Library/CoreServices/Menu Extras/TextInput.menu",
            "/System/Library/CoreServices/Menu Extras/Bluetooth.menu",
            "/System/Library/CoreServices/Menu Extras/Battery.menu",
            "/System/Library/CoreServices/Menu Extras/AirPort.menu"
        );
    };

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