Network bandwidth plugin for tmux

Shows the network bandwidth in the status line.

Installation

Requirements

• awk (GNU awk)
• netstat
• numfmt

macOS: brew install gawk coreutils

Linux: apt-get install gawk net-tools coreutils

With Tmux Plugin Manager

Add the plugin in .tmux.conf:

set -g @plugin 'xamut/tmux-network-bandwidth'

Press prefix + I to fetch the plugin and source it. Done.

Manual

Clone the repo somewhere. Add run-shell in .tmux.conf:

run-shell PATH_TO_REPO/tmux-network-bandwidth.tmux

NOTE: this line should be placed after set-option -g status-right ....

Press prefix + : and type source-file ~/.tmux.conf. Done.

Usage

Add #{network_bandwidth} somewhere in the right status line:

set-option -g status-right "#{network_bandwidth}"

then you will see the bandwidth in the status line: ↓3.5MiB/s • ↑134KiB/s

Customization

The plugin could be customized with:

• set-option -g @tmux-network-bandwidth-padding 12 - Set up the fixed padding for the output.

Other plugins

• tmux-spotify
• tmux-weather

License

tmux-network-bandwidth plugin is released under the MIT License.