{"id":792,"date":"2025-12-07T15:15:04","date_gmt":"2025-12-07T21:15:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kop.lat\/blog\/?p=792"},"modified":"2025-12-07T15:15:38","modified_gmt":"2025-12-07T21:15:38","slug":"how-to-resolve-the-genmon-issue-and-network-not-connecting-in-kali-linux","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kop.lat\/blog\/how-to-resolve-the-genmon-issue-and-network-not-connecting-in-kali-linux\/","title":{"rendered":"how to resolve the genmon issue and network not connecting in Kali Linux"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Fix the panel:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Right-click the panel \u2192 Panel \u2192 Add New Items.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul>\n<li>Search for and add Generic Monitor (if not already added).<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Right-click the new genmon item \u2192 Properties.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>In the Command field, enter: bash \/usr\/share\/kali-themes\/xfce4-panel-genmon-vpnip.sh (use bash explicitly for reliability).<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Uncheck the Label checkbox (or set Text to empty).<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Set Update Period to something like 3000 (3 second, 3.00) or <strong>higher to avoid overload.<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Click Close. The panel should now refresh and show your VPN IP (if connected)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>remove the plugin<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><code>sudo apt purge xfce4-genmon-plugin<\/code><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><code>sudo apt autoremove xfce4-genmon-plugin<\/code><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>update <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><code>sudo apt update<\/code><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>reinstall and upgrade<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><code>sudo apt upgrade xfce4-genmon-plugin<\/code><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>restart the panel<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><code>xfce4-panel -r<\/code><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>install i3status<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><code>sudo apt install i3status<\/code><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>reboot<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fix the panel: Right-click the panel \u2192 Panel \u2192 Add New Items. remove the plugin sudo apt purge xfce4-genmon-plugin sudo apt autoremove xfce4-genmon-plugin update sudo apt update reinstall and upgrade sudo apt upgrade xfce4-genmon-plugin restart the panel xfce4-panel -r install i3status sudo apt install i3status reboot<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":258,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[20,4,8],"tags":[21,72,5,22],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kop.lat\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/792"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kop.lat\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kop.lat\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kop.lat\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kop.lat\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=792"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kop.lat\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/792\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":795,"href":"https:\/\/kop.lat\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/792\/revisions\/795"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kop.lat\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/258"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kop.lat\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kop.lat\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kop.lat\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}