Mate-netspeed-applet, the disaster continues... #688
Description
I've already described the problem of continuous error logging in syslog when no internet device, such as a standard USB internet key, is connected.
Now that I'd solved that problem by creating a script that enables and disables the applet when my internet key isn't present, it's started a continuous chain of errors, looking for a nonexistent Wi-Fi device because it's disabled at the kernel level:
debian org.mate.panel.applet.NetspeedAppletFactory[1184678]: glibtop(c=1184678): [WARNING] Failed to open "/sys/class/net/wlp2s0/statistics/tx_packets": None.
debian org.mate.panel.applet.NetspeedAppletFactory[1184678]: glibtop(c=1184678): [WARNING] Failed to open "/sys/class/net/wlp2s0/statistics/rx_bytes"
This error is persistent and forces me to disable the applet, even though I'm regularly connected to the internet and the interface seems to work fine.
Furthermore, it's impossible to change the network device in the preferences; it always reverts to "Default." Meanwhile, the device list doesn't include any wlp2s0 Wi-Fi devices, precisely because that's how it should be.
I don't understand why it should be so problematic to change the program and make it possible to make user-level settings, for example, with a configuration file that allows you to specify only one device to monitor, and that's all.
I don't understand why it would be so problematic to change the program and make it possible to make user-level settings, for example, with a configuration file that allows you to specify only one device to monitor, and that one only?
I use Debian Trixie, but I don't know if this problem was present in the previous version, because Wi-Fi was always enabled, but now I've changed computers and I'm not using it.
