tazihad / xfce-hkmon-mbps

Hacker's Monitor for XFCE. This is slightly modified version to the original. It shows MBps speed.

Hacker's Monitor for XFCE (MBps, KBps)

Screenshot and doc

See the project web page.

Installation

1. Download xfce-hkmon.cpp and compile it (you only need gcc or clang installed):

g++ -std=c++0x -O3 -lrt xfce-hkmon.cpp -o xfce-hkmon

2. Place the executable somewhere (e.g. /usr/local/bin)
3. Add a XFCE Generic Monitor Applet (comes with most distros) with these settings: no label, 1 second period, Bitstream Vera Sans Mono font (recommended) and the following command:

/usr/local/bin/xfce-hkmon NET CPU TEMP IO RAM