How to show indicator using CLI?

[Linseed8248]

Does anyone here know how to show the indicators (volume/light/etc.) using the command line?

By indicators, I mean things like these:




Any help is greatly appreciated, thanks in advance!

[billyswong]

The pictures you linked don't load.

[Linseed8248]

The pictures you linked don't load.

Ah... ok




How about now?

[tonywhelan]

How about now?

Images ok, but it is not clear what exactly you mean by your question.
Those "indicators" are applets that can be enabled in the panel(s). What are you trying to achieve?

[Linseed8248]

How about now?

Images ok, but it is not clear what exactly you mean by your question.
Those "indicators" are applets that can be enabled in the panel(s). What are you trying to achieve?

I want to be able to make them appear using the CLI. Basically, I type something in the command line and they show up as if I pressed the buttons for them.

Like this:
https://gitlab.com/lint6018/keyboardbacklight
except instead of the command "notify-send" (which just sends a notification), I want to make it appear like the pictures above.

I hope I'm clear enough this time

[Xitee]

You've found a solution?
I'm trying to achive the exact same.

I'm using custom shortcuts to be able to have smaller volume steps but now I no more have the OSD

[Koentje]

I wanted the same on my laptop and made my own OSD for volume and brightness with conky.
You need to have conky installed with lua support. (conky-all)

volume-brightness-osd_v1.tar.gz

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[trinidad]

Conky can work from the CLI to show whatever you tell it to and you can have multiple .conkyrc files and choose which one you want from the CLI.

Otherwise because you want to show applet indicator images you could try one of the tray applications below:

https://packages.debian.org/bookworm/trayer

https://github.com/kolbusa/stalonetray

I have tried stalonetray and it should work for what you are trying to do.

TC