Hi all,

(mods I hope this is the correct forum - desktop or networking? - my apologies and please move it if not).

Anyway... I'm looking for (what should be) a simple network monitor that I can either run in my system tray (Debian 8, KDE, 64 bit) or as a little "widget" on the desktop - something like the old Windows-XP network monitor.

Just a little icon that blinks with incoming and outgoing data. I don't need or want complicated "bytes per second" data and colored graphs, just something like the attached image.

BTW, I checked for "similar threads" and found a few matches, but nothing like what I want (except for one - which for the life of me I couldn't get to compile).

Any help will be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

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Many Desktop Environment have this type of widget. Which DE are you using?

Gkrellm has the capability, but it's not a system tray icon, it's a small application that runs on in a window.

gKrellm

would be a fun challenge to script a little program to do that from scratch.

many of the old (windowmaker) dock apps still work and look similar (not sure how to put that in a systray though).

I'm running Debian 8 64 bit and KDE.

Wasn't windowmaker wmmon one of those network monitors? If it will work, as mention, not sure how to add it to the systray.