Location indicator

Shows your country flag, country ISO code, and IP address of your current location in the system tray.

For location detection requests to https://api.myip.com/ are sent each 15 seconds.

Requirements

• python3

Other requirements that will be installed automatically:

• jq - used to parse JSON responses from location API
• indicator-sysmonitor - used to display the location information in the system tray
• meson - used during installation of indicator-sysmonitor
• git - used to clone the indicator-sysmonitor repository and checkout the tested version
• python3-psutil

Installation

1. Create a directory to store locindicator scripts. It could be any writable directory accessible by your user.

   mkdir -p $HOME/Bin

2. Clone the repo.

   git clone https://github.com/icamys/locindicator.git $HOME/Bin/locindicator

3. Install the dependencies.

   This script requires root privileges to install (jq, indicator-sysmonitor).

   sudo $HOME/Bin/locindicator/install.sh

4. Bootstrap the indicator.

   Attention! Execute this command on behalf of the user, that is running the graphical interface. Otherwise, the indicator won't appear. Usually, it means that you should run it without sudo.

   The script adds sensors to indicator-sysmonitor, configures it to run on system start, and starts the indicator.

   $HOME/Bin/locindicator/bootstrap.sh

Uninstallation

The following script will stop and remove the currently running indicator, and remove its configuration file. The restart is still possible with after executing install.sh and bootstrap.sh scripts

$HOME/Bin/locindicator/uninstall.sh

Compatibility

Tested on:

• Ubuntu 24.04
• Ubuntu 22.04