[SOLVED] This seemed to have not worked before but on a closer look xfce package xfce4-netload-plugin 1.4.0 works well. This was pre-installed into MX Linux and does the job. None of you seem to be using xfce, any reasons?

MX x86_64 Xfce 4.18 Xfwm4 with panel xfce4-panel & mx-conky

What I want file of the conky on pastebin or is what I am after, I don’t have a plugin for xfce that works.

I have the config file for this particular file and I have uploaded it in pastebin, I can make it appear on panel if I get the command, but I don’t know what command conky is using. I am pretty sure one can get that if they have access to this particular conky file. Unfortunately, I am not THE ONE.

Are you THE ONE? If you are, then help me please :')

  • Max-P
    7•1 year ago

    There’s a plugin for that: https://github.com/ccrisan/xfce4-netspeed-plugin

    For a command, it’s kind of complicated because you only have totals, there’s no built-in instantanous network speed. The network speed in an single instant is always either zero or full bore: either data is being transmitted/received or it isn’t. You need to average over time with multiple samples. So if you want bits per second, such a command would need to at least take a sample, wait a second, take another sample, substract the two, then return the result. Ideally you want to sample over a few seconds otherwise it’ll still be pretty much all over the place. So the panel plugin is a better idea for that, as it’ll do the math and averaging for you.

    • Ganesh VenugopalOP
      1•1 year ago

      this doesn’t work for me. There is no config file in the folder. But there are some configure.ac configure.ac.in when I try to run them I get this error

      (base) bob@bob:~
$ sh '/home/bob/Downloads/xfce4-netspeed-plugin-master/configure.ac' 
/home/bob/Downloads/xfce4-netspeed-plugin-master/configure.ac: 1: dnl: not found
/home/bob/Downloads/xfce4-netspeed-plugin-master/configure.ac: 2: dnl: not found
/home/bob/Downloads/xfce4-netspeed-plugin-master/configure.ac: 3: dnl: not found
/home/bob/Downloads/xfce4-netspeed-plugin-master/configure.ac: 4: dnl: not found
/home/bob/Downloads/xfce4-netspeed-plugin-master/configure.ac: 6: dnl: not found
/home/bob/Downloads/xfce4-netspeed-plugin-master/configure.ac: 7: dnl: not found
/home/bob/Downloads/xfce4-netspeed-plugin-master/configure.ac: 8: dnl: not found
/home/bob/Downloads/xfce4-netspeed-plugin-master/configure.ac: 9: dnl: not found
/home/bob/Downloads/xfce4-netspeed-plugin-master/configure.ac: 11: dnl: not found
/home/bob/Downloads/xfce4-netspeed-plugin-master/configure.ac: 12: Syntax error: word unexpected (expecting ")")

      frankly this is not worth the time

        • Ganesh VenugopalOP
          1•1 year ago

          it’s fine. it was actuall installed by default, I though it didn’t work which is why I tried to hunt for other packages, but now since it does, no probs. Thank you for all your help

      • @Synthead
        1•1 year ago

        You need to compile it first. configure.ac is not a shell script.

  • @Synthead
    2•1 year ago

    What’s your distro? What WM or DM?