Simple taskbar indicator for Unity inspired by AnyBar (basically it is a clone of AnyBar)
Tested on Ubuntu 18.04 with Unity and Ubuntu GNOME
pip3 install somebar
to run somebar just execute in console
somebar
somebar is controlled via UDP port (1738 by default). Send it a message and it will change a color:
echo -n "black" | nc -4u -w0 localhost 1738
Following commands change color:
white
red
orange
yellow
green
cyan
blue
purple
black
question
exclamation
And one special command forces somebar to quit: quit
You can run several instances of somebar as long as they listen on different ports. Use -p
or --port
command line argument to change port:
somebar -p 1738
somebar -p 1739
somebar -p 1740
somebar can use user-local images if you put them under ~/.somebar
or ~/.AnyBar
. E.g. if you have ~/.AnyBar/[email protected]
present, send square
to 1738 and it will be displayed.