Wingpanel Community Indicators (Ayatana support)

This fork combines ayatana indicators with the namarupa project, giving the user more freedom of decision, which indicators should be presented where while keeping compatibility with ubuntu/unity indicators on elementary OS (Pantheon) wingpanel.

I am currently working on a switchboard-plug this project lives in symbiosis with.

If you want to use community-indicators, please also install MvBonin/switchboard-plug-indicators from here!

This adds support for all kinds of different indicators, like Steam, Nextcloud, KeePassXC and lots more. It is currently under developement and subject to change a lot. Use it at your own risk and update it often.

Easy Installation

Download .deb file and install it via

sudo apt install ./FILENAME.deb

Build and install:

First install the dependencies listed below.

Open a Terminal in the extracted folder, build your application with meson and install it with ninja:

meson build --prefix=/usr
cd build
ninja
sudo ninja install

Make sure, you follow the instructions in "Parameters for Pantheon". Otherwise it might not work.

Dependencies:

You'll need the following dependencies :

sudo apt-get install valac gcc meson cmake
sudo apt-get install libglib2.0-dev libgranite-dev libindicator3-dev libjson-glib-dev 

• Version Hera (5) and previous :

  sudo apt-get install libwingpanel-2.0-dev

• Version Odin(6), Horus(7) and later:

  sudo apt-get install libwingpanel-dev indicator-application

• Also Version Horus(7) if your Indicators don't get shown:

  sudo apt-get install gir1.2-appindicator3-0.1

Parameters for Pantheon (eOS)

You need to add Pantheon to the list of desktops abled to work with indicators.

There are two ways to do it, so just choose one:

• 1. - Manually with autostart (thanks to JMoerman):
just add the following custom command to auto start in

System settings -> "Applications" -> "Startup" -> "Add Startup App…" -> "Type in a custom command".

/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/indicator-application/indicator-application-service

Now you need to change a file:

sudo nano /etc/xdg/autostart/indicator-application.desktop

Search the parameter: OnlyShowIn= and add "Pantheon" at the end of the line :

OnlyShowIn=Unity;GNOME;Pantheon;

Save your changes (Ctrl+X to quit + Y(es) to save the changes + Enter to validate the filename).


• 2. - With the terminal (thanks to ankurk91):
Open Terminal and run the following commands.

mkdir -p ~/.config/autostart
cp /etc/xdg/autostart/indicator-application.desktop ~/.config/autostart/
sed -i 's/^OnlyShowIn.*/OnlyShowIn=Unity;GNOME;Pantheon;/' ~/.config/autostart/indicator-application.desktop

For changes to take effect you need to reboot your machine.

How to uninstall community-indicators

If you want to uninstall it, open a terminal in the build folder.

sudo ninja uninstall

How to restart wingpanel

To restart wingpanel:

Version Hera(5) and previous:

killall wingpanel

Version Odin(6):

killall io.elementary.wingpanel