GNOME Netstatus-2.6.1

Introduction to GNOME Netstatus

The GNOME Netstatus package contains a panel applet that monitors network interfaces. It provides indicators for ingoing and outgoing data, packets received and transmitted, and information about the network interface such as IP information and Ethernet address.

Package information

GNOME Netstatus dependencies

Installation of GNOME Netstatus

Install GNOME Netstatus by running the following commands:

./configure --prefix=`pkg-config --variable=prefix ORBit-2.0` \
    --libexecdir=`pkg-config --variable=prefix ORBit-2.0`/sbin \
    --sysconfdir=/etc/gnome --localstatedir=/var/lib &&
make &&
make install

Command explanations

--libexecdir=`pkg-config --variable=prefix ORBit-2.0`/sbin: This switch puts libexec files in $GNOME_PREFIX/sbin instead of $GNOME_PREFIX/libexec.

--sysconfdir=/etc/gnome: This switch puts configuration files in /etc/gnome instead of $GNOME_PREFIX/etc.

--localstatedir=/var/lib: This switch puts ScrollKeeper files in /var/lib/scrollkeeper instead of $GNOME_PREFIX/var/scrollkeeper.

Contents

The GNOME Netstatus package contains gnome-netstatus-applet.

Description

gnome-netstatus-applet

gnome-netstatus-applet displays information about a network interface on your panel.