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I just wrote a plugin to allow me to set my Network location (we sit behind a corporate proxy at work) AND my bash proxy settings at the same time.

So when I'm not in the office switching to my "home" profile is just a menu click away.

This has been a long standing dream of mine to automate - so thanks!

EDIT: also it works with emojis, which is handy, here's a screenshot http://imgur.com/CVxchnI

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I hope you submitted a pull request!

Sadly it's too bespoke to release, I had all the profile switching scripts written already and have been using them for a few years now. On top of updating environment variables with proxy settings etc, they also update a bunch of configuration files for maven, ssh, stunnel etc via symlinks

All this bitbar thing does is call those existing scripts, very simple, but saves me

a) wondering what profile I have enabled (now in the menubar) b) opening a terminal and typing "update-env (work|home)" (one click switch)

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