Displaying an icon on the right bottom panel

[ydbdm]

Hello,
I run Linux Mint 21 MATE - I've a binary that I wrote, I launch this once I've logged in. I would like to display an icon on the right bottom panel that is indicative that this app is running. Optionally I'd also like to provide a basic right-click menu that'd allow me to exit this app. At least starting with an indicator icon would be wonderful.

Could you please point me the correct direction?

Thanks!

[billyswong]

The native way to do so in Linux Mint is through XAppStatusIcon
https://projects.linuxmint.com/xapp/ref ... sIcon.html

It can fallback to "traditional" Gtk.StatusIcon, so any Linux desktop variants that are traditional enough to support Gtk.StatusIcon can display it. I am not an experienced GTK application programmer so I can't offer any more help.

ps. Oh there is a demo of how to use them and a show of their difference https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S0onVliBWQ4

[ydbdm]

The native way to do so in Linux Mint is through XAppStatusIcon
https://projects.linuxmint.com/xapp/ref ... sIcon.html

It can fallback to "traditional" Gtk.StatusIcon, so any Linux desktop variants that are traditional enough to support Gtk.StatusIcon can display it. I am not an experienced GTK application programmer so I can't offer any more help.

ps. Oh there is a demo of how to use them and a show of their difference https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S0onVliBWQ4

https://github.com/evuraan/Swipe is the app I was referring to - I've incorporated a status indicator, thank you for the pointers!

While I wrote Swipe to suite my needs, I hope others would find it useful - especially those of us who have laptops with touchpads and/or touchscreens. Feedback / suggestions are most welcome!