Indicator applets for ubuntu are pretty useful and they come in handy when needed and there is no doubt that you’ll love the flexibility and usability they provide in daily life. So, today stugon shares some of the best & useful indicator applets for your ubuntu machines.
Actually, this list is not limited in anyway as there are lots of awesome applets and Its a hard time for me to choose just five of them. Also, please note that some of the app indicators may not be available in ubuntu official repositories and you may have to search & launch the app from dash after the installation.
Useful Indicator Applets For Ubuntu
System Load Monitor
This applet lets you monitor your system performance on your unity panel itself. It has the ability to show your CPU activity in a graph style and it can show more than one resource type at the same time. To do that, all you have to do is to tweak the preferences. To install it, follow the command below..
sudo apt-get install indicator-multiload
Classic Menu
If you are tired of using dash, then you can get the old GNOME-2 style classic menu on your unity panel. This is pretty handy if you love to have all your programs at your mouse pointer. Use the commands below to install classic menu indicator.
sudo apt-add-repository ppa:diesch/testing sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install classicmenu-indicator
Recent Notifications
Oops, you missed a notification from ubuntu as you are away form your machine!!! No problem, you can tackel this using the recent notifications indicator. This indicator helps you view all your notifications that pass through the notification daemon. Use the command below to install recent notifications indicator.
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:jconti/recent-notifications sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install indicator-notifications
Hardware Sensors
This is one of my most favourite, This app is capable of showing the information regarding your hardware stuff like temperature & fan speed, etc. Use the commands below to install hardware sensors indicator.
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:alexmurray/indicator-sensors sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install indicator-sensors
Weather Indicator
Last but not least, Weather indicator provides you with the latest and updated weather information right on your ubuntu unity panel. To install weather indicator use the commands below.
sudo apt-get install indicator-weather
Note: If the above command doesn’t work for you then you can use the alternate ppa to installe weather indicator.
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:weather-indicator-team/ppa sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install indicator-weather
That’s all there is guys, If you think I missed any awesome indicator apps then share it via comments.