A comment from a dupe that matches what the upstream bug says and might be helpful info:
gnome-nettool reports my "Link speed" as "not available", unless I run gnome-nettool as root, yet gnome-nettool has no way I can run it as root via a desktop file. The gnome-nettool package should include a gnome-nettool-as-root.desktop -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to the bug report. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/44299 Title: Link speed: not available To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/gnome-nettool/+bug/44299/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
