HEADS UP! This applet is no longer maintained. Please have a look at https://github.com/Sispheor/indicator-ip to see if it is an option for you. Thank you very much for your interest in this software. ~ bovender
A Ubuntu indicator to display the current IP address.
Tested on Ubuntu 14.10, 15.04, 15.10 and 16.04 with Unity.
sudo apt-add-repository ppa:bovender/bovender
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install indicator-ip
This will install the program and configure automatic start at login. To
run it right away, press ALT+F2 to open the Unity command prompt and
enter indicator-ip.
- Install the
python-appindicatorpackage. - Checkout source code.
- Auto-run
PATH_TO_REPO/src/indicator-ipon system start-up.
indicator-ip adds an indicator and menu to the indicator bar and shows the IP addresses of any connected network interfaces as well as the public IP that belongs to this computer on the internet.
The public IP is fetched from a service that must return nothing but the
IP address in plain text form. The default service is
checkip.amazonaws.com. An alternative service (e.g., icanhazip.com
can be given on the command line.
Show the IP for the given interface at startup. Use -i public to
show the public IP.
Fetch the IP from the service at URL. By default, indicator-ip uses
checkip.amazonaws.com to obtain the public IP. You may want to use
another service such as icanhazip.com or any other service that
returns the IP in text form. Note that indicator-ip will refuse to take
output that is longer than 17 bytes (e.g., longer than xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx
plus a trailing newline and/or carriage return).
Increase verbosity to standard output. Of course this is only meaningful
if you run indicator-ip in a terminal. Use one or more v to set
the debug level to WARN, INFO, or DEBUG (e.g., -vvv to see debug
messages).
Print version number and exit.
The usual.
Enables autostart upon Unity login. This is done by creating a file
indicator-ip.desktop in ~/.config/autostart. If you want to change
the IP provider service, add the -u option to the command line in
the autostart file. When run with root privileges, this will enable
autostart system-wide.
Disables automatic start of the applet during Unity login by removing
the file ~/.config/autostart/indicator-ip.desktop . When run with root
privileges, this will disable autostart system-wide.
~/.config/autostart/indicator-ip.desktop
Autostart file (created by the --autostart option, removed by -no-autostart).
https://github.com/bovender/indicator-ip
If you wish to contribute to this project, please issue pull requests against the develop branch. Thanks.
- DJG wrote the original script (https://github.com/sentientwaffle/unity-ip-indicator) in May 2012.
- In April and May 2015, Daniel Kraus
extended the script with additional features such as the ability to
fetch the public IP, and provides a
.debpackage in his personal package archive (ppa:bovender/bovender).
Copyright (c) 2012 DJG, 2015-2017 Daniel Kraus (bovender)
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