Clip ItĪn Indicator-based fork of clipboard manager ‘ParcelLite’, ClipIt boasts very little to differentiate itself from rivals. Ubuntu 11.10 users will need to add the development PPA should they wish to install it. That said it’s a light and capable tool worthy of consideration.Ī Stable build PPA supporting Ubuntu 10.04, 10.10 and 11.04 can be found here. Lacking a mono-panel icon, it does look out of place when using Ubuntu’s default theme. DiodonĪ similarly purposed indicator is Diodon. Installation instructions and a bit more information is in this post. Ubuntu 11.10 is not currently supported. With a mono-icon and ‘Clean history’ button it sits as one of the best of its ilk available to Ubuntu users. ‘Pastie’ looks and does what you’d expect it to. With anticipation of Natty’s depreciation of familiar GNOME applets be sure to cast a mental CTRL+C over the following indicators replacements. Clipboard managersĪre you one of those people who copy and paste a lot? If so you may already use a clipboard manager to, well, manage your clipboard. Installation instructions, along with a bit more rationale on the ‘why?’, can be found here. ‘Piffle?’ you say? Although my keyboard does have a ‘caps lock’ light – I never remember to look at it so, for fellow unobservant folks out there, this is worth its salt. sudo apt-get update & sudo apt-get install indicator-cpufreqīe alerted to when the caps lock, scroll lock or number lock keys are ‘on’ or ‘off’.The applet, available for Ubuntu 10.10, 11.04 and 11.10, can be installed by running the following commands in a Terminal: – CPU-Freq offers all the functions of the standard GNOME Cpu-Freq applet but in indicator clothing. By limiting the clock speed of your laptop/netbook you can, in theory, extend your battery life a little lone. Monitoring CPU usage is a top priority for many users on portable devices. sudo apt-get update & sudo apt-get install my-weather-indicator.Open a terminal and enter the following commands: – The indicator is available for Ubuntu 10.04 through 11.10 users via the developers official PPA. My-weather-indicator is a panel-based weather forecast apple able to relay a surprisingly wide range of meteorological information, including ‘feels like’, dew point, humidity, sunrise/set, moon phase and a pop-up 4 day forecast. sudo apt-get update & sudo apt-get install touchpad-indicator.sudo add-apt-repository ppa:atareao/atareao.The indicator is available for Ubuntu 10.0 through 11.10 users via the official PPA : Options for disabling/enabling the trackpad, as well as offering the ability to configure a keyboard shortcut to toggle this, is available via the indicator. deb package for various Ubuntu releases, including 11.10, can be downloaded from the project homepage /indicator-sysmonitor/+download Touchpad-indicatorĪccidentally hitting the laptop track-pad is a pet peeve with a lot of users – in fact it’s how this tiny Indicator Applet came to be! Basic – but sometimes that’s all you need.Ī. Indicator-SysMonitorĭeparting with the overly utilitarian format of other indicators, ‘Indicator-SysMonitor’ keeps things very simple: it only displays CPU and RAM usage on your panel, with an ‘Exit’ button being the only menu entry. Once installed launch from the ‘Applications > Internet’ sub-menu or by searching for ‘Ubuntu One Indicator’ in the Unity Dash. sudo apt-get update & sudo apt-get install ubuntuone-indicator.sudo add-apt-repository ppa:rye/ubuntuone-extras.Installation is a breeze using Roman’s PPA for Ubuntu 10.04 through 11.10 users. It lets you view and monitor your Ubuntu One accounts sync status with nothing more than a single click on on the panel icon. Roman Yepishev did a more than moan about missing it and fashioned this gorgeous ‘Ubuntu One indicator-applet’. Ubuntu One Indicatorīy design Ubuntu One doesn’t come with a status area icon, an oversight that many users sorely miss. Note that for simplicities sake we’ve opted to not mention indicators that ship with Ubuntu by default – Tomboy, Transmission, etc. Just as with GNOME Applets you’re free to pick and choose which of these you use, install or run, so here’s a quick run down of the most popular ‘App indicators’ and ‘Indicator Applets’ presently available along with all the links/info you need to install them. These new breed of notification area entries are designed to be consistent and unified in look and function, thus leading to a desktop more in tune with itself and with its users. Supplanting them fully are ‘Application Panel Indicators’. From Ubuntu 11.04 onwards the Ubuntu desktop no longer supports the traditional GNOME panel applets many of us have become accustomed to.
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