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I have been using the Netspeed widget 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 KSysGuard package that the widget depends on has been removed from the Debian and Ubuntu repositories as it is unmaintained (Debian bug).

Thanks to a useful suggestion on Reddit, I was able to recreate the functionality of this widget using the System Monitor Sensor widget. Here is what I did to achieve it.

Add the System Monitor Sensor widget to the panel.
Right-click the widget and click on the Configure System Monitor Sensor option in the menu
In the Appearance tab, load the Network speed preset, set the Display style to Text Only and set the Minimum Time Between Updates to 1 second. Apply the changes before proceeding to the next step.
Open the Sensors Details tab and in the Text Only Sensors field, search for the Download Rate sensor. I chose the Download Rate (B/s) version. There is also a Download Rate (b/s) sensor, if you prefer that.
Click on the small pencil icon edit button just after the name of the widget, Download Rate, to edit it. Specify the down arrow symbol, ↓, as the name. Apply the changes.
Now you have a widget that shows the current download speed on the panel, updated once every second.
Add another System Monitor Sensor widget to the panel and configure it to display the Upload Rate by following the steps above, tweaked for displaying the upload rate.
The result of doing these steps should look like what is shown in the screenshot below.

With this, I have a good replacement for the NetSpeed Widget on my Kubuntu install.

#download-speed #kde #kde-plasma #kubuntu #netspeed-widget #plasma-panel #system-monitor #upload-speed #widget

https://www.lguruprasad.in/blog/2023/01/19/replacing-the-netspeed-widget-on-kubuntu-22-04-and-newer/