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When I was using Ubuntu 16.04 I could save an user friendly name to every known Wi-Fi network, because not always the SSID makes sense to know whose network it is.

This was extremely helpful to me. Now I've updated to Ubuntu 17.10 and I can't see these names any more. Where can I find these?

Zanna
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Alwin
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The default GUI network manager does't provide any option to change the name. But there's another tool you can use.

Open Terminal and run

nm-connection-editor

A connection editor will appear which allows you to change the connection name.

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pomsky
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  • This is exactly the GUI from 16.04, why did they change that?

    But this has all that I was asking for, thanks a lot for your help!

     – Alwin Nov 13 '17 at 03:14
  • This changed because Ubuntu 17.10 came with GNOME shell instead of Unity like before. – pomsky Nov 13 '17 at 09:21
  • Sorry, thought I did but I didn't. Done now. I know this is because of GNOME, but I don't like it! ;-) – Alwin Nov 14 '17 at 01:25