[kde-linux] System/Network taskbar applets?

[James Richard Tyrer]

David J Iannucci wrote:
> If you've been reading this list very carefully :-), you may have noted
> that I had been using IceWM as my window manager, but it was causing
> trouble with the system tray applets (or rather KDE was causing trouble
> because its own WM wasn't being used), so I've recently put IceWM aside
> in favor of kwin (that's the name, right?)
> 
> The one thing that I really miss is that IceWM by default puts up a
> couple very attractive system monitors on its taskbar: a cpu/disk load
> monitor and a network traffic monitor.  They're small and don't convey
> a lot of information, as such, but they make it very easy to see
> what's going on.
> 
> I've found the System Guard applet which does something like IceWM's
> cpu/disk load monitor, but there doesn't seem to be a network traffic
> monitor (at least in the default install) available with KDE.  This
> latter is actually the more useful of the two, and I *really* feel blind
> not being able to see data flowing in and out of my machine!
> 
> Does anyone know if such an applet exists?  Ideally I'd love to find out
> if some KDE fan has exactly copied the (as I say very attractive in
> their colorful simplicity) IceWM monitor applets.

I installed: "knetload" which I think is what you want.

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JRT