Showing posts with label systray. Show all posts
Showing posts with label systray. Show all posts
Wednesday, October 21, 2015
`Indicator Systemtray Unity`: On Demand System Tray For Ubuntu
If you still need a system tray in Ubuntu (Unity), you don't need the patched Unity any more. Instead, you can simply install `Indicator Systemtray Unity`, a new AppIndicator which adds a system tray to the Unity panel.
`Indicator Systemtray Unity` doesn't show up on the panel until you launch an application which comes with a tray icon. Even then, the systray is displayed on demand (on left/middle-click) and there are two modes available:
1. Floating mode - in this case, the tray icons will be displayed under it:
1. Floating mode - in this case, the tray icons will be displayed under it:
When using this mode, you'll need to left-click on the Indicator Systemtray Unity icon to show the tray icons, which are only displayed when the mouse cursor is near the Indicator Systemtray icon.
2. Static mode - the icons will be displayed on the panel, on the same raw as the indicators:
By middle-clicking on the Indicator Systemtray icon, you can get the systray icons to be displayed in an overlay on top of the panel, useful to either display the icons next to the indicators (like in my screenshot below) or for use on top of a dock.
When this mode is used, the system tray icons aren't hidden (until you middle-click it again).
You can move the icons horizontally by scrolling on the Indicator Systemtray icon on the Unity panel. Moving the icons to the left of the indicators like in the screenshot above is a bit tricky because once the icons are on top of Indicator Systemtray, you won't be able to scroll on it any more, but you can change this via dconf-editor (see below).
Update: you can now change background for both indicator modes. However, to be able to access the background settings from the indicator menu, you need to set Indicator Systemtray Unity to the floating mode (mode 1 above):
You can move the icons horizontally by scrolling on the Indicator Systemtray icon on the Unity panel. Moving the icons to the left of the indicators like in the screenshot above is a bit tricky because once the icons are on top of Indicator Systemtray, you won't be able to scroll on it any more, but you can change this via dconf-editor (see below).
Update: you can now change background for both indicator modes. However, to be able to access the background settings from the indicator menu, you need to set Indicator Systemtray Unity to the floating mode (mode 1 above):
Indicator Systemtray can be configured via dconf-editor. Firstly, install dconf-editor:
sudo apt-get install dconf-editorAnd then launch Dconf-Editor and navigate to net > launchpad > indicator > systemtray. Here you can change the indicator's X and Y positions for the static and floating modes, change the mode, background settings, or disable the indicator.
Note that if you use multiple monitors, the tray will only show up on the primary monitor!
Note that if you use multiple monitors, the tray will only show up on the primary monitor!
Install Indicator Systemtray Unity in Ubuntu
To install Indicator Systemtray Unity in Ubuntu 15.04, 14.10 or 14.04, use the following commands:
sudo apt-add-repository ppa:fixnix/indicator-systemtray-unity
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install indicator-systemtray-unityOr, if you don't want to add the PPA, you can grab the deb from HERE (but you won't receive any updates).Once installed, log out and log in and Indicator Systemtray Unity should start automatically (but it won't show up on the panel until you launch an app that uses a tray icon).
In case you want to remove Indicator Systemtray Unity, use the following command (don't use a simple "remove" because it won't remove the app files from /etc !):
sudo apt-get purge indicator-systemtray-unityTo report bugs, download the source code, etc., see Indicator Systemtray Unity's GitHub page.Tuesday, October 6, 2015
SysMonitor Indicator, Sticky Notes Indicator And Systemtray Unity Indicator See New Releases
Systemtray Unity Indicator, Sticky Notes Indicator and SysMonitor Indicator were updated recently. Read on to see what's new.
StickyNotes Indicator is a simple appindicator which can be used to place post-it (sticky) notes on your desktop.
Te latest SysMonitor Indicator 0.7, released recently, adds two new "sensors":
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Systemtray Unity Indicator
Systemtray Unity Indicator is a new Unity indicator which adds a system tray to the Unity panel, which we've covered recently. The app was updated today with a new option, requested by some of our readers: you can now change the tray icons background.
To be able to access the background options, you'll need to put the indicator in the "static" mode (static mode = the tray icons are displayed on the same raw as the indicators) by middle clicking it and then, clicking on the Systemtray Unity indicator, you can access the background settings for both the static and the floating mode, as you can see in the screenshot above.
Sticky Notes Indicator
StickyNotes Indicator is a simple appindicator which can be used to place post-it (sticky) notes on your desktop.
The app was updated today with two bug fixes, the first one being pretty important:
- fixed show desktop issue (until now, using "show desktop" via Unity Launcher / Alt-Tab caused the notes to disappear and they wouldn't show up again until the app was restarted);
- don't show notes in Unity Window Spread.
SysMonitor Indicator
SysMonitor Indicator is an Ubuntu AppIndicator that can display the CPU, memory, swap, filesystem and network usage as values on the panel.
Te latest SysMonitor Indicator 0.7, released recently, adds two new "sensors":
- upordown - it displays a happy / sad face depending on the Internet connection status (up or down);
- publicip - it displays your public IP address;
- the CPU sensor was updated and it now allows you to see the average CPU percentage (use "{cpu}" in the settings) as well as the ability to display individual core usage (use "{cpu1}", "{cpu2}", etc.).
More information about Sysmonitor Indicator and installation instructions (the article includes instructions for getting bash scripts output on the panel via this indicator - most of the examples included in that article are now incorporated in Sysmonitor Indicator but I won't remove them because you can use the examples as a base for other use cases).
Sysmonitor Indicator changelog via xpressubuntu
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