systranything: Let you put anything in the system tray

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systranything creates a system tray menu based on a YAML file. The YAML contains the specification of the menu items with shell commands to execute when the items are clicked.

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Versions	0.1.0.0, 0.1.0.0, 0.1.1.0
Change log	CHANGELOG.md
Dependencies	aeson (>=2.1.2 && <2.2), base (>=4.16 && <5), bytestring (>=0.11.4 && <0.12), extra (>=1.7.14 && <1.8), gi-ayatana-appindicator3 (>=0.1.0 && <0.2), gi-gdk (>=3.0.28 && <3.1), gi-glib (>=2.0.29 && <2.1), gi-gobject (>=2.0.30 && <2.1), gi-gtk (>=3.0.39 && <3.1), optparse-applicative (>=0.17.1 && <0.18), text (>=2.0.2 && <2.1), typed-process (>=0.2.11 && <0.3), unliftio (>=0.2.25 && <0.3), yaml (>=0.11.11 && <0.12) [details]
License	MIT
Author	Jean-Charles Quillet
Maintainer	jeancharles.quillet@gmail.com
Category	Desktop
Home page	https://github.com/jecaro/systranything
Source repo	head: git clone https://github.com/jecaro/systranything.git
Uploaded	by jecaro at 2024-06-18T06:57:43Z

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Systranything

systranything lets you put anything in your system tray. It is supported by all destop environment that implements the StatusNotifierHost specification from freedesktop.org (KDE, XFCE, ...).

It uses a YAML file which describes the icon to put in the system tray along a context menu and callbacks to be executed in a shell.

The menu can contain labels, separators, submenus, checkboxes and radiobuttons. Scroll events can be triggered on the main icon.

Among other things, I use it to change my VPN settings. The icon shows its current status:

demo

What you can do with it:

a custom launcher menu
a volume icon
a menu to turn on or off your VPN
a menu to toggle dual monitor setups
anything that requires a status icon and scriptable actions

See the example file to get started.

Run it with:

$ systranything -f ./example.yaml

It has a verbose mode which can be turned on with -v. It writes on stdout the commands executed along their outputs.

Hacking

The project can be built with nix.

Install with:

$ nix profile install

Build with:

$ nix build

The binary is then created in ./result/bin/systranything

Hack with:

$ nix develop

You will be dropped in a shell with all the needed tools in scope: cabal to build the project and haskell-language-server for a better developer experience.