What is NetMonitor?

NetMonitor is a humble Netspeed replacement for gnome-shell.

.. _Netspeed: http://projects.gnome.org/netspeed/ .. _gnome-shell: https://live.gnome.org/GnomeShell

What it looks like?

Everybody loves screenshots, right?

.. image:: http://img848.imageshack.us/img848/883/netmonitor.png :alt: Normal view

.. image:: http://img11.imageshack.us/img11/4089/netmonitormenu.png :alt: Menu

Disclaimer

As I couldn't find any real documentation for writing gnome-shell extensions, I based my code on better or worse snippets and tutorials found on internet. Some of the sources are mentioned below:

• gnome-shell-extensions <http://git.gnome.org/browse/gnome-shell-extensions/>_
• Musings of an OS plumber <http://blog.fpmurphy.com/tag/gnome-shell>_
• gnome-shell-system-monitor-applet <https://github.com/paradoxxxzero/gnome-shell-system-monitor-applet>_

How it works?

The extension lists available network devices using NMClient and uses GTop to get devices' statistics.

Instalation

In order to install gsettings schema, copy org.gnome.shell.extensions.net-monitor.gschema.xml file to /usr/share/glib-2.0/schemas [1]_ and invoke glib-compile-schemas on that direcory. Note that you need to be root or use sudo to do that::

cp org.gnome.shell.extensions.net-monitor.gschema.xml /usr/share/glib-2.0/schemas

glib-compile-schemas /usr/share/glib-2.0/schemas

The NetMonitor@zdyb.tk directory should be copied to /usr/share/gnome-shell/extensions or ~/.local/share/gnome-shell/extensions/::

cp -r NetMonitor\@zdyb.tk /usr/share/gnome-shell/extensions

or::

$ cp -r NetMonitor\@zdyb.tk ~/.local/share/gnome-shell/extensions/

.. [1] Note, that paths may differ depending on distribution (eg /usr/local/share/)

License

Copyright 2011 Aleksander Zdyb

This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program. If not, see http://www.gnu.org/licenses/.