Network usage util

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Hello :slight_smile:
while today using my normal system I usually open btop to check the amount of data been used since I booted up my machine ,but every second matter I don’t wanna waste 0.5 second wait for btop to load and keep staring at network block

I made simple solution Introducing

nwusage

small cli to read network bits from kernel and stdout
nwusage -hr
I bind key for fast checking

bindsym $mod+N exec --no-startup-id notify-send "Network Data Usage" "$(nwusage -hr)" -t 5000

and yes I tried bash it work but slower and cause problems in my i3 configs
I share this in case someone found it useful.

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Followed. Thanks for sharing. You should probably update the repo page with screenshot and some more details when you get a chance.