Byte On Panel ============= Coypright Mozbugbox <mozbugbox@yahoo.com.au> 2011-2013 Released under GPL version 3 or later. Add simple network traffice monitor icons to the desktop panel/taskbar. The icons show bandwidth usage of all the network interfaces on a Linux system. Home: https://bitbucket.org/mozbugbox/byteonpanel/ Usage ===== Copy the "src/byteonpanel" file into your path and run it. It will check your network interfaces and pop some icons on your desktop panel/taskbar. Dependents ========== Python version: gtk+-3.0, python-gobject, python-cairo Vala version: vala > 0.10.0, libcairo, gtk+-3.0 Build ===== Install the devel package for the dependents first. $ ./configure $ make $ make install Python Version ============== The original code was written in Python. Later on, it's ported to vala language for smaller footprint. The python version is in the file dist/byteonpanel.py, while the vala version is in dist/src/*.vala. LXDE Autostart ============== * Copy the "byteonpanel.desktop" file to $HOME/.config/autostart/. * Then open LXDE->Preferences->Desktop Session Settings->Automatically Started Applications->ByteOnPanel. * Check the box. * Finally logout and login. Vola! We have icewm like network activity monitors! whorfin tweaks ============ I prefer "bps" (bits per second) instead of "B" (bytes per second) If you do not: * remove -D BITS_NOT_BYTES from byteonpanel_VALAFLAGS in src/Makefile.am $ make clean $ autoreconf $ ./configure Known Issues ============