Wingpanel Namarupa Indicator

Name Inspiration

The name Namarupa is used for the forces at play that govern the Ayatana, in Buddhism. Since this indicator manages the system tray icons which are under the Ayatana project, it seems clever to name this Namarupa.

Installation for users

Install the latest debian file:

• Download com.github.lenemter.wingpanel-indicator-namarupa.deb
• Open your Downloads folder in Files
• Right click -> Open in -> Terminal

sudo apt install ./com.github.lenemter.wingpanel-indicator-namarupa.deb

You need to add Pantheon to the list of desktops allowed to work with indicators:

• 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

Reboot

Uninstalling for users

sudo apt remove com.github.lenemter.wingpanel-indicator-namarupa

Reboot

For developers

You'll need the following dependencies:

• libglib2.0-dev
• libgranite-dev
• libindicator3-dev
• libwingpanel-dev
• valac
• meson (>= 0.58)

Install them with:

sudo apt install libglib2.0-dev libgranite-dev libwingpanel-dev libindicator3-dev valac meson

Run meson to configure the build environment and then ninja to build and install:

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

Reboot (reboot) or kill Wingpanel (killall io.elementary.wingpanel)

To uninstall with ninja:

• Open a terminal in the build folder.
• Run sudo ninja uninstall

Reboot (reboot) or kill Wingpanel (killall io.elementary.wingpanel)

Credits

Forked from: Lafydev/wingpanel-indicator-namarupa
Original idea: donadigo/wingpanel-indicator-namarupa
Original indicator: elementary/wingpanel-indicator-ayatana