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SomeBar
Simple taskbar indicator for Unity inspired by AnyBar (basically it is a clone of AnyBar)
Tested on Ubuntu 20.20
<img src="screenshot_unity.png?raw=true" /> <img src="screenshot_ubuntugnome.png?raw=true" />Install
pip3 install somebar
Usage
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:
<img src="somebar_icons/white@2x.png?raw=true" width=19 /> white
<img src="somebar_icons/red@2x.png?raw=true" width=19 /> red
<img src="somebar_icons/orange@2x.png?raw=true" width=19 /> orange
<img src="somebar_icons/yellow@2x.png?raw=true" width=19 /> yellow
<img src="somebar_icons/green@2x.png?raw=true" width=19 /> green
<img src="somebar_icons/cyan@2x.png?raw=true" width=19 /> cyan
<img src="somebar_icons/blue@2x.png?raw=true" width=19 /> blue
<img src="somebar_icons/purple@2x.png?raw=true" width=19 /> purple
<img src="somebar_icons/black@2x.png?raw=true" width=19 /> black
<img src="somebar_icons/question@2x.png?raw=true" width=19 /> question
<img src="somebar_icons/exclamation@2x.png?raw=true" width=19 /> exclamation
And one special command forces somebar to quit: quit
Running multiple instances
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
Custom images
somebar can use user-local images if you put them under ~/.somebar or ~/.AnyBar. E.g. if you have ~/.AnyBar/square@2x.png present, send square to 1738 and it will be displayed.