How to install backend for Safe Eyes tray icon
Works out of the box. If it does not work, please create an issue, and add details about your system.
If you are using GNOME, install the AppIndicator and KStatusNotifierItem Support extension, and Safe Eyes should work immediately afterward. This extension is preinstalled in Ubuntu, where the tray icon works out of the box.
You will have to install snixembed. Here is how to.
Note: In i3, some distros add out-of-box support for the tray icon backend we are using. If it does not work, you will have to install snixembed.
This method was tested in Elementary OS 7.
According to this, Pantheon does not currently support a system tray out of the box. You will have to use Wingpanel Comminity Indicators
Enter the following commands one by one to download and install it, and add it to startup applications.
wget https://github.com/MvBonin/wingpanel-community-indicators/releases/download/2.0.10/com.github.mvbonin.wingpanel-community-indicators_2.0.10_amd64.deb
sudo apt install ./com.github.mvbonin.wingpanel-community-indicators_2.0.10_amd64.deb
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
Reboot, and Safe Eyes should work!
While Safe Eyes tray icon works out of the box in Ubuntu MATE (thanks to Ayatana indicators), it may not work outside Ubuntu MATE.
There are two options.
- Use
snixembed, which acts as a bridge between the new status notifier and the legacy tray icon system. Here is how to install snixembed. - Alternatively, install the Ayatana Indicator plugin used in Ubuntu MATE. Reboot.
To install it in debian based systems (e.g. Raspberry Pi OS), run the following command (as a normal user, without sudo - it will automatically ask for your password). It will install snixembed, and will automatically add it to startup applications.
wget https://gist.githubusercontent.mirror.nvdadr.com/archisman-panigrahi/cd571ddea1aa2c5e2b4fa7bcbee7d5df/raw/setup-snixembed-debian.sh && sudo bash setup-snixembed-debian.sh
Now reboot, and Safe Eyes should work!
In case you are curious to know what the above command does, here is the installation script it executes.
These operating systems already have a packaged version. Please use your package manager.
You will have to add snixembed --fork to startup applications (see this for how to).
Finally, reboot, and Safe Eyes should work.
Here is how to compile and install from source. Finally add snixembed --fork to startup applications, and reboot.
Please create an issue, and add details about your system, and what you have tried.