On Mon, 20 Feb 2017 22:27:22 +0000
Unman <un...@thirdeyesecurity.org> wrote:

> On Mon, Feb 20, 2017 at 12:06:28PM -0600, hawk...@bitmessage.ch wrote:
> > On Mon, 20 Feb 2017 12:02:16 -0600
> > <hawk...@bitmessage.ch> wrote:
> >   
> > > On Mon, 20 Feb 2017 02:05:41 -0800
> > > Andrew David Wong <a...@qubes-os.org> wrote:
> > >   
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> > > > On 2017-02-17 13:06, hawk...@bitmessage.ch wrote:    
> > > > > As a generalization of my previous question:
> > > > > 
> > > > > I've seen screenshots (Joanna's:
> > > > > https://cloud.githubusercontent.com/assets/10212863/16384754/7e131672-3c8a-11e6-8fc7-62bf9a1d90bf.png)
> > > > > where a section of the panel seems to be showing the XFCE
> > > > > menubar from another VM, such as sys-firewall. Perhaps I'm
> > > > > interpreting the colors wrong, but I can't seem to figure out
> > > > > how to accomplish this. Does anyone have any tips?
> > > > >       
> > > > 
> > > > I actually don't see what you describe in that screenshot. Can
> > > > you explain in more detail what you mean?
> > > > 
> > > > P.S. - Please don't top-post.    
> > > 
> > > It looks to me like the little green monitor bars and green text
> > > in the upper right might be displaying sys-firewall data. I could
> > > be wrong, but am curious either way.
> > > 
> > >   
> > > >     
> > > > > 
> > > > > On Tue, 14 Feb 2017 16:09:10 -0600
> > > > > <hawk...@bitmessage.ch> wrote:
> > > > >       
> > > > >> The network monitor plugin displays nicely colorized current
> > > > >> network traffic rate on the XFCE panel. I would like to get
> > > > >> this displaying the netVM's traffic rate, next to the red
> > > > >> netvm in Dom0's panel. However, typically it doesn't run in
> > > > >> the "notification area", and I'm not sure how to get it
> > > > >> displayed in Dom0 (as the netvm icon is). 
> > > > >>
> > > > >> Can anyone point me in the right direction ?    
> > > 
> > > I've attached a screenshot of the XFCE network monitor (in a
> > > normal XFCE install) that I was hoping to display in dom0, but
> > > with real-time data from netvm or firewall. The goal is to see all
> > > current network traffic easily.
> > > 
> > > Thanks!  
> > 
> > and the screenshot is attached... 
> >   
> 
> It seems to me that the issue here is that you want to attach a panel
> applet from sys-net to the dom0 panel. I don't think this can be
> easily done.
> 
> You can, of course, open a xfce-panel and run the applet in that, but
> this wont be locked to the dom0 panel, and will be a freefloating
> window.

So install XFCE in the fedora template, restart, run "xfce4-panel
--preferences" in the netvm, and add a new panel via the panel gui,
followed by the applet?

> 
> An alternative would be to choose a monitor that uses the system tray
> because Qubes will automatically incorporate this in to the dom0
> system tray, (like the nm-applet). 
> For example, you could install indicator-multiload and have it
> automatically start configured to show network traffic - this should
> appear in the system tray. I think that shows graphs so it isn't
> exactly what you are looking for.
> I'm probably missing something obvious but this solution will work as
> you want. 
> 
> Another approach might be to run conky configured semi-transparent so
> you retain the output but don't lose screen space.
> 
> unman


I thought that indicator-multiload was debian/ubuntu only? I think it's
on the wish-list for the Fedora repos.

I guess Conky might be a good way to go.

Thanks! 

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