qnetload - Graphically display network speed and usage
Contents
Acknowledgements
Many thanks to R.F. Smith for xnetload: lots of inspiration from it.
Many thanks to Jen Thomas for testing qnetload and helping with the manual page and texts.
Bug Reports
Bug tracker: <https://github.com/cpina/qnetload/issues>
Email: Carles Pina i Estany <carles@pina.cat>
Copyright And License
Copyright © 2017-2023 Carles Pina i Estany <carles@pina.cat>. License: GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or
later.
QNETLOAD(1)
Description
Graphically display network speed and usage.
-i, --interface=INTERFACE
Display network INTERFACE. For example: eth0, wlan0. If unsure, do not specify.
When running the interface can be changed by clicking on it. Right-click on the interface to list
the available interfaces.
-h, --help
Display help for commandline options.
-v, --version
Display version information.
--help-all
Display help including Qt-specific options.
Files
${HOME}/.config/qnetload/qnetload.conf
The last-used interface is saved here. This will be used the next time qnetload is executed.
/proc/net/dev
This file, provided by the kernel, contains details of the network usage and is read by qnetload
to provide the displayed data.
Name
qnetload - Graphically display network speed and usage
Original Idea From Xnetload
qnetload has the same look and feel as xnetload, which is no longer maintained. The q in the name is
because qnetload is implemented using the Qt libraries.
See Also
ipmon(1) ethstatus(1) nload(1)
Synopsis
qnetload
Using Qnetload
Some features on qnetload might not obvious:
• Click on the interface to change it.
• Right-click anywhere on qnetload to display a contextual menu with the list of interfaces, the IP and
the version. The most common interfaces are in bold (ethX, wlanX, etc.).
• There are two buttons: pause the accumulative counter of Downloaded and Uploaded data and reset the
counter. To reset the counters, click twice.
• Clicking in the graph will display how much data has been downloaded and uploaded since the position
of the click and a projection for the next hour's usage.
• Hover the mouse pointer over any of the numbers to display the meaning of the value.
