Simple taskbar indicator for Unity inspired by AnyBar (basically it is a clone of AnyBar)

Tested on Ubuntu 20.20

pip3 install somebar

to run somebar just execute in console

somebar

somebar is controlled via UDP port (1738 by default). Send it a message and it will change a color:

echo -n "black" | nc -4u -w0 localhost 1738

Following commands change color:

white red orange yellow green cyan blue purple black question exclamation

And one special command forces somebar to quit: quit

You can run several instances of somebar as long as they listen on different ports. Use -p or --port command line argument to change port:

somebar -p 1738
somebar -p 1739
somebar -p 1740

somebar can use user-local images if you put them under ~/.somebar or ~/.AnyBar. E.g. if you have ~/.AnyBar/[email protected] present, send square to 1738 and it will be displayed.