Wingpanel Ayatana-Compatibility Indicator (Community Version)

It's time for me to spare my time and let this project go on his own way, but for new updates, you can follow this incredible work from MvBonin, Wingpanel Community Indicators: https://github.com/MvBonin/wingpanel-community-indicators

Description:

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

Important: To add support for Legacy icons (Wine, PlayOnLinux) see here : msmaldi/wingpanel-indicator-na-tray

Dependencies

You'll need the following dependencies :

sudo apt-get install libglib2.0-dev libgranite-dev libindicator3-dev 

• Version Hera(5) and previous :

  sudo apt-get install libwingpanel-2.0-dev

• version odin(6) :

  sudo apt-get install libwingpanel-dev indicator-application

Easy Install (user only)

1. Download the deb file from your version :

• com.github.*amd64.deb for hera and previous
• OR com.github.*odin.deb

and launch install:

sudo dpkg -i ./com.github.lafydev.wingpanel*.deb

Parameters for Pantheon (eos)

2. You need to add Pantheon to the list of desktops abled to work with indicators :
   
   • With autostart (thanks to JMoerman)
   just add /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/indicator-application/indicator-application-service as custom command to the auto start applications in the system settings. System settings -> "Applications" -> "Startup" -> "Add Startup App…" -> "Type in a custom command".
   

With the terminal (thanks to ankurk91)

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

Editing files (change system settings!)

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)

1. Download the last release (zip) and extract files

Dependencies

2. You'll need all the dependencies from easy install and these to build :

sudo apt-get install valac gcc meson 

Build with meson

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

Reboot or restart wingpanel : Version Hera(5) and previous:

killall wingpanel

Version Odin(6):

killall io.elementary.wingpanel