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firewalld applet

Description

firewall-applet is a tray applet for firewalld.

Options

firewall-applet does not support any special options.

The following options are supported:

-h, --help: Prints a short help text and exits.

firewall-applet has additional settings to adapt the look and feel. QSettings is used and stores them in ~/.config/firewall/applet.conf. The file is automatically reloaded if it has been changed and the new settings will immediately be effective.

There is also the global config file /etc/firewall/applet.conf, which contains the default values. The settings in this file will be overloaded by settings in the user settings file.

Here is an example applet.conf file:

[General]
notifications=true
show-inactive=true

The following settings are supported:

notifications

The applet shows notifications if enabled. This setting can be enabled also in the applet with the "Enable Notifications" checkbox in the right mouse menu.

This setting defaults to false.

If notifications are shown for these actions if 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 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.

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