permanently set 'wireless mode' so the airplane icon shows it in top bar

whilst there are work arounds Permanently Disable Wireless Drivers and Wireless Internet on tablet-PC

, I would like to see the airplane icon in the top bar to prove that wireless is off. (the best way would be to take out the hardware as I never use wifi )

the setting is in settings, wifi , airplane mode.

but this resets to enabled on reboot. I would like it permanently selected there, so it shows in top bar.

ryzen5 22.04.1 gdm3 5.15.0-56-generic

this worked for me lovely, and the airport icon shows up the top , I only need to run it on startup/reboot.

not mine, got it from here, so upvote there.

Turn Airplane Mode on/off via terminal

#!/bin/bash

radio="$(nmcli radio all | awk 'FNR == 2 {print $2}')"

if [ "$radio" = "enabled" ]
 then
    nmcli radio all off
else
    nmcli radio all on
fi

if rfkill list bluetooth | grep -q 'yes$' ; then
    rfkill unblock bluetooth
else
    rfkill block bluetooth
fi

also I ran it as sh, which is dash not bin (as I understand it). else I could run it as 'bash xxxx,sh'

rfkill block all

works a treat from 22.04 thinks my desktop should have wifi, so sets airplane on as I do ot use wifi. This means that bluetooth cannot work. Why? comment in first answer. AND it did not require sudo. simplest solution.

So less about: how make it turn off / how to make the off status remain as such between refresh or reboot

MORE about: relocating the status icon of the setting to a place more prominent.

As with most cel phones where you can rearrange the notification icons and assign them priorities.

You could research and build a macro that turns off the wifi and then add a line to the REBOOT sequence that initiates that macro near the end of rebooting. If you determine a resource for that please be sure to include.

Does the interface, where your icon currently displays, allow you to interact with the icon as a means of interacting with the settings it represents?