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

StackApplet

Category: Other

StackApplet is a GNOME panel applet that monitors your activity on any StackExchange site.

stackapplet in Ubuntu Software Centre

Answer 2

System Load Indicator

Category: System Information

indicator-multiload in Ubuntu Software Centre or:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:indicator-multiload/stable-daily
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install indicator-multiload

Network, memory and cpu usage indicator; this is a port of the original System Monitor GNOME Panel applet (gnome-system-monitor applet).

In Preferences you can customize the output to fit it to your desktop theme:

Note: It will not show network traffic of Mobile Broadband because of bug.

Answer 3

Weather Indicator

Category: Weather Forcasting

Displays the current/extended weather, multiple locations and notifications support.

indicator-weather in Ubuntu Software Centre

or project's PPA: ppa:weather-indicator-team/ppa

Answer 4

CPUFreq

Category: System Information

If you have a laptop or Netbook and want to be able to cool down that chip that's burning your hand and save some battery power this will be useful.

ppa:artfwo/ppa and install package indicator-cpufreq

Answer 5

ClassicMenu Indicator

Category: Application starter

Provides a simple way to get a classic GNOME-style application menu for those who prefer this over the Unity dash menu. Like the classic GNOME menu, it includes Wine games and applications if you have those installed.

Get the most recent version from its web page (PPA available for Ubuntu 11.04, 11.10 and 12.04).

Answer 6

Hardware Sensors Indicator

Category: System Information

Application Indicator showing hardware sensors.

For 11.10:

First add the repository:

sudo apt-add-repository ppa:alexmurray/indicator-sensors 

Update:

sudo apt-get update  

And then install the package:

sudo apt-get install indicator-sensors

Then run indicator-sensors

For 12.04:

This command should download from launchpad and install it for you:

cd /tmp ; arch=$(uname -p) ; if [[ "$arch" = "x86_64" ]] ; then wget https://launchpad.net/~alexmurray/+archive/indicator-sensors/+files/indicator-sensors_0.1-1_amd64.deb ; else wget https://launchpad.net/~alexmurray/+archive/indicator-sensors/+files/indicator-sensors_0.1-1_i386.deb ; fi ; chmod +x /tmp/indicator-sensors_0.1-1* ; sudo dpkg -i /tmp/indicator-sensors_0.1-1*

Answer 7

Ejecter

Category: Mounting/Drive Removal

Handy applet if you are swapping out usb sticks, cards and hardrives on a regular basis.

You can install ejecter without using the PPA - it's in the default repositories.

Answer 8

Sysmonitor Indicator

Category: System Information

Nice and simple just shows as text the current processor and ram usage, and also various temperature sensors detected in your system.

ppa:alexeftimie/ppa and install package indicator-sysmonitor

It is possible to add own scripts for customized output:

Answer 9

Dropbox

Category: Cloud Computing

1. Download and install the deb.

Answer 10

Places Indicator

Category: File management

This is a simple indicator that shows common folders and all bookmarks, the indicator updates automatically if bookmark was added or removed.

1. Download the latest version
2. Extract the files
3. Run indicator-places.py

Answer 11

Caffeine

Category: Power Management

Caffeine helps prevent Ubuntu from ‘sleeping’.

ppa:caffeine-developers/ppa and install package caffeine

Answer 12

Virtualbox Indicator

Category: Virtualization

Indicator-Virtualbox offers a quick way to launch virtual machines from the notification area.

ppa:michael-astrapi/ppa and install package indicator-virtualbox

Answer 13

F.lux indicator

Category: Computer health

f.lux makes your computer screen look like the room you're in, all the time. When the sun sets, it makes your computer look like your indoor lights. In the morning, it makes things look like sunlight again.

ppa:kilian/f.lux and install package fluxgui

Answer 14

SSHPlus

Category: Network

A simple version of SSHMenu with a list of your regular SSH connections (previously called SSHlist). SSHplus supports sshmenu configuration files, and adds the entries automatically.

1. Download sshplus.py from here

2. In Terminal make the file executable and copy to /usr/local/bin

   chmod a+rx sshplus.py sudo cp sshplus.py /usr/local/bin

3. Create a .sshplus file in home directory and add ssh hosts - one per line

   gedit ~/.sshplus

   Configuration example provided here.

4. Run sshplus

   Run Command Alt+F2 and type sshplus.py

5. Optionally add to Startup Programs list so it runs upon login.

Source

Answer 15

Chars Indicator

Category: Other

Chars indicator is a replacement for the old character applet. It allows you to store characters, which are potentially not available on your keyboard directly, in order to use them conveniently without searching the full chaaracter map (such as fancy unicode chars).

A click on a symbol in the menus copies the selected character to the "middle mouse button" clipboard so it can easily be inserted.

Configuration is really easy: Create a file .indicator-chars in your home dir. Every line in this file represents a set of char (menu items in the main menu) and the single characters are selectable from the corresponding sub-menu.

Source code

Answer 16

My Weather Indicator

Category: Weather Forecasting

this is an indicator that will show weather information in your area, as well as other valuable information such as time of sunrise, sunset and moon phase

Find out whether you need to wear a jacket, a t-shirt or a waterproof suit... If you click on the indicator, you will get more information about, humidity, dew point, feels like, wind velocity and wind direction, weather condition.

My-Weather-Indicator informs you about sunrise ans sunset time, and the lunar phase

You can get the forecast for your area for next three days:

You can get information of the weather of two cities at the same time:

ppa:atareao/atareao and install package my-weather-indicator

Answer 17

Ubuntu One Indicator

Category: Cloud Computing

For monitoring the sync state of your Ubuntu One account.

ppa:rye/ubuntuone-extras and install package ubuntuone-indicator

Answer 18

Redshift

Category: Computer Health

Redshift adjusts the color temperature of your screen according to your surroundings. This may help your eyes hurt less if you are working in front of the screen at night.

gtk-redshift in Ubuntu Software Centre

Customise Colour Temperature

You can change the colour temperature by adding -t DAY:NIGHT to the Redshift commmand in Startup Applications, here is a popular example:

gtk-redshift -t 6500:5500

Answer 19

Pastie

Category: Clipboard Manager

One of many clipboard managers this is considered to be the pick of the bunch but we will leave opinions to the bloggers as that's their job.

ppa:hel-sheep/pastie and install package pastie

Answer 20

Radio Tray

Category: Multimedia

A minimalistic radio player that runs in the notification area.

ppa:eugenesan/ppa and install package radiotray

Answer 21

Lookit

Category: Screen Capture

Lookit is a screen capture tool that can be used to capture an area or the entire screen. After capturing, you can save it on your desktop or upload to a FTP, SSH server or Imgur.

ppa:lookit/ppa and install package lookit

Answer 22

Syspeek

Category: System Information

SysPeek is a system monitor indicator that displays CPU usage, memory usage, swap usage, disk usage and network traffic.

ppa:vicox/syspeek and install package syspeek

Answer 23

USB Safe Removal

Category: Mounting/Drive Removal

A little appindicator for flash drive safe removal.

To add this indicator, download & install the deb

Answer 24

Glipper

Category: Clipboard Manager

A clipboard manager for the Gnome desktop, it can store text from both keyboard and mouse so you can easily access the clipboard using a hotkey.

glipper in Ubuntu Software Centre

Answer 25

Disper Indicator

Category: Monitor Switching

Disper-indicator provides a simple user interface for Disper. Disper-indicator detects which monitors are currently connected to the computer and provides options to enable single screens, clone or extended screen configurations.

ppa:nmellegard/disper-indicator-ppa and install package disper-indicator

This indicator requires Disper to be installed

Answer 26

Indicator-sysload

Category: System Information

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

Source Code

Answer 27

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 28

Tomate

Category: Concentration / Get things done

This is a simple indicator that helps keep concentrated. You start it before a complicated problem and you have to keep concentrated for at least 10 minutes after it becomes green you can continue to work on your problem but you get thing done.

You can find more information about this concentration technique on the official website.

Often when you start to work, you continue and tomate give you feedback of the time it took to fix the task.

1. Download the latest version
2. Extract the files
3. Run tomate.py

Answer 29

Workspaces Indicator

Category: Workspace

A little indicator to make it easy to switch workspaces.

ppa:geod/ppa-geod and install package indicator-workspaces

Note: Does not currently have a 11.10 repository. See this answer on how to install in 11.10.

Answer 30

Jupiter

Category: Power management

A really helpful power management indicator. You can use it to change display settings as well as simple power management schemes, or to disable your touchpad or wifi adapter on laptops.
It can either run with the new applet system, or with the old notification area system.

This little icon has helped me a lot in keeping my laptop's temperature under control.

The screenshot was taken in Elementary OS 0.1 Jupiter, wich still uses the old nitification area system. But I've used this in Ubuntu 11.04 as well and it worked as an applet as well.