What Application Indicators are available?

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I installed Ubuntu 11.04 on one of my systems and I am using the Unity interface. Unity is working quite well so far but I really miss panel applets for net speed, cpu temp, and system monitor.

These applets are useful for viewing quick info. Unlike 10.10, there is no other way to get this info onto the panel or unity launcher. There are solutions like screenlets and conky but they don't feel appropriate for a clean desktop look.

If you know one then please list out any third party indicators with links so that they can be found.

Answer 1

Indicator-sysload

Category: System Information

indicator-sysload is an Ubuntu appindicator that displays the system load (CPU, memory usage, network traffic)

Source Code

Answer 2

Brightness indicator

Category: Screen brightness control

With this indicator you can set your screen brightness.

To add this indicator, just add this PPA: https://launchpad.net/~indicator-brightness/+archive/ppa

Answer 3

Clipit

Category: Clipboard Manager

A Parcellite fork that uses an Ubuntu appindicator and also comes with some other fixes and improvements.

ppa:shantzu/clipit and install package clipit

Answer 4

Touchpad Indicator

Category: System

If you have a touchpad on your laptop that you want to toggle on and off then you will need this.

ppa:atareao/atareao and install package touchpad-indicator

Answer 5

Battery Status

Category: System Information

An applet capable of displaying detailed information about the battery.

ppa:iaz/battery-status and install package battery-status

To run Battery Status as an indicator applet in Ubuntu: (More Info)

/usr/lib/battery-status/battery-status --indicator

Answer 6

Google Reader Indicator

Category: RSS Feeds

Google Reader Indicator displays the number of unread items in your Reader account along with article title and excerpt. Click on an article will open it in your default browser.

ppa:atareao/atareao and install package google-reader-indicator

Answer 7

Diodon

Category: Clipboard Manager

Diodon is a lightweight clipboard manager for Linux written in Vala which "aims to be the best integrated clipboard manager for the Gnome/GTK+ desktop".

ppa:diodon-team/stable and install package diodon

Answer 8

Glippy

Category: Clipboard Manager

A simple clipboard manager for Ubuntu that provides clipboard support for history, images, text and more.

ppa:bikooo/glippy and install packages glippy & glippy-ubuntu-mono

Answer 9

Haguichi Appindicator

Category: Networking

This applet provides indicator support to Haguichi, a popular Hamachi GUI for Gnome.

ppa:webupd8team/haguichi and install package haguichi-appindicator

Answer 10

DesktopNova Indicator

Category: Wallpaper Control

This applet works in tandem with the wallpaper changer DesktopNova.

ppa:michael-astrapi/ppa and install packages desktopnova & indicator-desktopnova

Answer 11

Recent Notifications

Category: Other, System

An applet which stores the last notifications.

ppa:jconti/recent-notifications and install package indicator-notifications

After installing run Alt+F2 unity --replace. You will find a little mailbox in the panel.

(more info about changing the icon and uninstalling)

Answer 12

Update Manager

Category: Other, System

Indicator-updatemanager is small update indicator in system-tray that informs about available updates. It will disable the annoying popup ‘Update Manger’ window.

The Webupd8 PPA has built this for Ubuntu Precise 12.04 and Oneiric 11.10. So as an alternaive, Ubuntu 12.04 and 11.10 can add the PPA and install it by executing following commands in terminal:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:nilarimogard/webupd8
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install indicator-updatemanager

Run application by:

update_indicator

Answer 13

Window-List

Category: Other, Window Management

Window-list displays a list of current open desktop windows. Windows can be activated by selecting them from the menu list.

Windows-List is available for all versions of Ubuntu running Unity.

install via ppa:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:jwigley/window-list
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install window-list

deb package is also available from the launchpad repository.

run application by:

window-list

Answer 14

Mounty

Category: Mounting/Drive Removal

Mounty is a very simple indicator applet you can use to mount CD / DVD images. It supports ISO, IMG, BIN, MDF and NRG and besides mounting, it can also burn the images to a CD/DVD.

ppa:tldm217/tahutek.net and install package mounty

Follow the directions on this page: https://launchpad.net/mounty

You can get the .deb package by running

sudo add-apt-repository "deb http://download.learnfree.eu/repository/skss / #SKSS"
wget http://download.learnfree.eu/repository/skss/repo.pub.asc -q -O- | sudo apt-key add -
sudo apt-get update ; sudo apt-get install mounty

This is the official Mounty repository

The original PPA no longer works for some reason but this did the trick.

Answer 15

DisPlex

Category: Window Manager Switching

Displex provides similar functionality to "fusion-icon" but provides a lot more features. It can control window decorations, screen rotation through Xrandr, switch between Metacity or Compiz compositing, provide AcerHK support and more.

To add this indicator, download & install the deb

Answer 16

Netspeed Indicator

Category: System Information

A port of the old netspeed GNOME applet. Shows the current transfer rate directly on the panel, as text ("Net: XXX.X KiB/s").

Source Code

Quick build instructions:

sudo apt-get install build-essential libgtop2-dev libgtk-3-dev libappindicator3-dev git-core
git clone git://github.com/mgedmin/indicator-netspeed.git
cd indicator-netspeed
make
./indicator-netspeed

Answer 17

Indicator Stickynotes

Category: Utilities, Other

An indicator to add Sticky Notes capability to Unity desktop. Can add multiple notes, hide them all or show them at the same time.

To install:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:umang/indicator-stickynotes
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install indicator-stickynotes

Answer 18

Feed Indicator

Category: RSS Feeds

Panel-based RSS reader

To add this indicator, download & install the deb

Answer 19

SimpleStarter

SimpleStarter is an application starter, based on sshlist. You can launch all programs like putty or rdesktop, not only gnome-terminal, and choose a title for each menu entry.

Download: http://static.bheil.net/geraffel/simplestarter.py

Description at blog post: http://www.bheil.net/blog/2011/07/07/simplestarter-simple-application-starter-appindicator

Answer 20

CrystalHD indicator

The indicator shows several states of the crystalhd (Broadcom BCM70012 BCM70015) linux driver: Disabled, enabled, working and error.   It also lets you disable and enable the driver.

• Google Code Page
• Download and instructions

Answer 21

syno-indicator

Category: Download

Provides an App-Indicator for you Synology NAS. Add links and torrents, see download progress, auto-add torrents from a folder. Only useful if your platform supports App-Indicators and you own a Synology NAS!

» download from sourceforge

Answer 22

Here are some of the indicators I wrote. They are single files based on python for guake and gpaste.

There is also a calendar indicator for Nepali i.e. my native country.

Answer 23

Unity Launcher Toggle

An appindicator for toggling the Unity launcher mode (fixed or autohide).

Answer 24

Skype indicator

sudo add-apt-repository "deb http://archive.canonical.com/ $(lsb_release -sc) partner"
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install skype

Answer 25

PPA Download Statistics Indicator

Category: Other

Provides download counts for PPAs.

PPA: ppa:thebernmeister/ppa Package: indicator-ppa-download-statistics

Answer 26

MiniDLNA Indicator

Category: Network, Audio, Video, Images

Indicator to run and stop minidlna DLNA server providing UPnP/DLNA access to audio, video, and image directories (e.g. for streaming to a DLNA compliant TV set).

Run minidlna with non-root privileges with an easy to edit configuration minidlna.conf stored in ~/.config/minidlna.

This Python application runs with both Python2, and Python3.

Answer 27

Privacy Indicator can be used to enable or disable:

• Dash online search results;
• Zeitgeist logging (so when you disable
  this, all files you access won't be logged by Zeitgeist and thus,
  will not show up in Dash or any other applications that make use of
  Zeitgeist);
• show real name on the Unity panel.

The indicator also supports clearing the Zeitgeist log and recent files (from the new Nautilus 3.6 sidebar, etc.).

To install it in Ubuntu 12.10 or 13.04:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:diesch/testing
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install indicator-privacy

More info: Unity Privacy Indicator: Quickly Enable Or Disable Dash Online Search Results Or Zeitgeist Logging

Answer 28

Sound Switcher Indicator allows for easy switching of the default sound input ("source" in PulseAudio terms) and output ("sink") with just a couple of clicks:

In order to install it:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:yktooo/ppa
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install indicator-sound-switcher

After that simply find and run Sound Switcher Indicator.

Answer 29

Stardate Indicator

Category: Other

Provides the current Star Trek (TM) stardate.

PPA: ppa:thebernmeister/ppa Package: indicator-stardate

Answer 30

Lunar Indicator

Category: Other

Provides the moon phase, moon/sun/planet rise/set times.

PPA: ppa:thebernmeister/ppa Package: indicator-lunar