rcarmo/wingpanel-indicator-ayatana

Wingpanel Ayatana-Compatibility Indicator

Wingpanel Ayatana-Compatibility Indicator (Community Version)

Description:

Keep compatibility with ubuntu/unity indicators on Elementary OS wingpanel. If you want to install applications with indicators like weather forecast, redshift... this plug-in let these indicators appear in your panel.

Easy Install (user only)

1. Download the deb file (zip) and launch install

Parameters for Pantheon (eos)

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

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) save the changes + Enter to valid the filename).

3.reboot.

Build and install (developer)

Dependencies

1. You'll need the following dependencies to build :

sudo apt-get install libglib2.0-dev libgranite-dev libindicator3-dev 
sudo apt-get install libwingpanel-2.0-dev valac gcc meson 

Build with meson

2. Download the last release (zip) and extract files
3. 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

4. Follow step 2 from easy install (parameters) and reboot.

uninstall

Open a terminal in the build folder.

sudo ninja uninstall
killall wingpanel