quoll is a generic indicator for the system tray that displays SVG and PNG icons. It currently support only Linux. It was inspired by AnyBar and basically it's a clone with small differences.
quoll depends on Ayatana Application Indicators libayatana-appindicator3-1
and gtk3
so in order to compile it you have to install them first.
On Debian (and derivatives):
sudo apt install libayatana-appindicator3-dev libgtk-3-dev
Then simply do:
cargo install quoll
Distribution of resources is not supported yet using cargo, so to get the base icons (as the ones included in AnyBar, but in SVG format) just download them and put in the directory where quoll will search for them:
mkdir -p $(quoll home) && curl -sL https://github.com/eriol/quoll/releases/download/0.1.0/base_resources.tar.gz | tar xzf - -C $(quoll home)
quoll is controlled via UDP (default port is 1738). To start it use the serve
subcommand:
quoll serve
To send a message to change the icon use the send
subcommand, for example:
quoll send green
The message is simply the icon name, without the extension.
To list the icons currently available, and so the corresponding messages that we can send:
ls $(quoll home)
SVG icons will always precede PNG ones, so having both my_icon.svg
and
my_icon.png
in quoll home
directory, when we send quoll send my_icon
the
SVG one will be displayed.
The special message quit
makes quoll to terminate.
UDP port can be specified with the -p
flag and works for both serve
and
send
subcommand:
quoll -p 1234 serve
quoll -p 1234 send red
For full usage instructions use:
quoll help
quoll is licensed under GPL-3.