Guruprasad L<p>I have been using the <a rel="nofollow noopener" href="https://store.kde.org/p/998895/" target="_blank">Netspeed widget</a> on my KDE Plasma installations for a long time to display the network download and upload speed in the Plasma panel. When I upgraded to Kubuntu 22.04 a few months ago, I found that it stopped working. After doing some research, I found that the <code>KSysGuard</code> package that the widget depends on has been removed from the Debian and Ubuntu repositories as it is unmaintained (<a rel="nofollow noopener" href="https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1005973" target="_blank">Debian bug</a>).</p><p>Thanks to a useful suggestion on Reddit, I was able to recreate the functionality of this widget using the <code>System Monitor Sensor</code> widget. Here is what I did to achieve it.</p><ul>
<li>Add the <code>System Monitor Sensor</code> widget to the panel.</li><li>Right-click the widget and click on the <code>Configure System Monitor Sensor</code> option in the menu</li><li>In the <code>Appearance</code> tab, load the <code>Network speed</code> preset, set the <code>Display style</code> to <code>Text Only</code> and set the <code>Minimum Time Between Updates</code> to <code>1 second</code>. Apply the changes before proceeding to the next step.</li><li>Open the <code>Sensors Details</code> tab and in the <code>Text Only Sensors</code> field, search for the <code>Download Rate</code> sensor. I chose the <code>Download Rate (B/s)</code> version. There is also a <code>Download Rate (b/s)</code> sensor, if you prefer that.</li><li>Click on the small pencil icon edit button just after the name of the widget, <code>Download Rate</code>, to edit it. Specify the down arrow symbol, ↓, as the name. Apply the changes.</li><li>Now you have a widget that shows the current download speed on the panel, updated once every second.</li><li>Add another <code>System Monitor Sensor</code> widget to the panel and configure it to display the <code>Upload Rate</code> by following the steps above, tweaked for displaying the upload rate.</li><li>The result of doing these steps should look like what is shown in the screenshot below.</li>
</ul><p>With this, I have a good replacement for the <code>NetSpeed Widget</code> on my Kubuntu install.</p><p><a rel="nofollow noopener" class="u-tag u-category" href="https://www.lguruprasad.in/blog/tag/download-speed/" target="_blank">#download-speed</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="u-tag u-category" href="https://www.lguruprasad.in/blog/tag/kde/" target="_blank">#kde</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="u-tag u-category" href="https://www.lguruprasad.in/blog/tag/kde-plasma/" target="_blank">#kde-plasma</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="u-tag u-category" href="https://www.lguruprasad.in/blog/tag/kubuntu/" target="_blank">#kubuntu</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="u-tag u-category" href="https://www.lguruprasad.in/blog/tag/netspeed-widget/" target="_blank">#netspeed-widget</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="u-tag u-category" href="https://www.lguruprasad.in/blog/tag/plasma-panel/" target="_blank">#plasma-panel</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="u-tag u-category" href="https://www.lguruprasad.in/blog/tag/system-monitor/" target="_blank">#system-monitor</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="u-tag u-category" href="https://www.lguruprasad.in/blog/tag/upload-speed/" target="_blank">#upload-speed</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="u-tag u-category" href="https://www.lguruprasad.in/blog/tag/widget/" target="_blank">#widget</a></p><p><a href="https://www.lguruprasad.in/blog/2023/01/19/replacing-the-netspeed-widget-on-kubuntu-22-04-and-newer/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://www.lguruprasad.in/blog/2023/01/19/replacing-the-netspeed-widget-on-kubuntu-22-04-and-newer/</a></p>