OK - I use Conky in both Ubuntu 24.04 and Fedora 43 to provide easy info on WIFI speed.
In Ubuntu the Conky variables work fine and I get real time displayed for each wifi’s link speed
In Fedora the Conky variables do not work as Fedora stopped supporting wireless variables - dumped libiw back at fc35, and libiw is required to get conky wireless variables to work - see: https://github.com/brndnmtthws/conky/discussions/2334
THAT SAID - are there any Fedora wifi apps available to show the wireless newwork link speed?
Maybe that could be used but there is nothing shown about where the downloaded code should be placed to enable the extension.
Download provides either the source code or a zip file; yet there are no instructions on where the content of the zip file should be placed to make it a functional extension.
The readme at the github site also does not provide adequate instructions for proper installation.
Found that in the Extension Manager ‘browse’, and installed - looks cool BUTonly shows my PCI wifi, not the USB wifi that I’m trying to check speed for… useless :-\
Comment: Got hover-over to work ONCE - usually have to click on it to get popup… can disable PCI wifi and THEN it goes to USB wifi info, but re-enabling PCI wifi returns it back to only the PCI wifi… jeepers!
UPDATE: Rebooted, and now the USB wifi is indicated (still have to click - hover not working)…
Maybe for some but I don’t find a way to install it on my system.
I open up the gnome shell integration link in chrome but it refuses to allow me to locate and install that extension. I seem to have no way to browse, and the search does not work for that extension
Using the command shown does not work either
$ gnome-extensions enable wifi-signal-plus@jalil.arfaoui.net
Extension “wifi-signal-plus@jalil.arfaoui.net” does not exist
The extension manager in Chrome does not allow me to even locate it, let alone install it.
The page you linked allows download of a zip file or cloning from github but no instructions for installing it. (I had already tried that as noted above)
I don’t use firefox so it would seem worthless to do anything with firefox when I use Chrome 100% of the time.
A browser extension should be easy to install but this one has stymied me completely.
I personally use the Astra Monitor extension it integrates all of the other system monitor functions as well and it utilizes nethogs to show any network info. You just need to install Nethogs along with it.
Do you have the connector package (gnome-browser-connector) installed? This is required for the Chrome GNOME Shell integration extension to function.
If you install both (should be installed by default), you should then be able to install GNOME extensions right from the GNOME Extensions web page.
I agree with that. However extensions are made from several individuals. If there is some issues with it, it might be because they are not professional developers and missed something.
Can it be that you have blocked the execution of scripts in chrome? It needs some code to install this extension. Might be that you can set it on ask always, when installing a plugin etc.
that’s what I used - install went easy, but the wifi signal plus app is a bit buggy: hover-over works almost never, the info displayed is limited most of the time, and if you have more than one wifi good luck on which it displays randomly :-\
UPDATE: installed on Ubuntu 24.04 and behaves the same way
(but there I have a fully functioning Conky)
I just wish Fedora supported Conky better and all this would’ve been superfluous…
I go to Wi-Fi in settings, click on the USB wifi, then click on the connected network options and link speed shows there, too ~ both seem a lot of trouble… too bad wifi signal plus isn’t more refined
