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cgarcia

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Registered: 2010-08-09

Posts: 39

NEW simple XFCE network monitor applet

My dream network monitor made true:

In the picture above with the mouse placed over, to show the tooltip extended information. The CPU report is optional.

It is very similar to the gnome network monitor applet, not available for XFCE. And slightly improved: one thing I always hated on it was the fact that when the units change, the related figure performed a big jump, forcing one to track both simultaneously, which is a brain-intensive task . On the other hand, the XFCE counterpart (netload plugin) only allows graphical bars (unless placing the mouse over to popup the tooltip) and the smallest network activity either goes to full height or is not visible depending on the configuration.

Despite being based on the Generic Monitor applet, you don't have to worry about performance, and is SSD-safe (does not writes on physical disk).
More information on the wiki: XFCE simple Network Monitor applet.

corruptz0r

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From: Atlanta, GA

Registered: 2010-07-07

Posts: 63

Re: NEW simple XFCE network monitor applet

This is awesome, thank you for contributing this.