How to add information indicators to a Launcher icon from a script?
- by Paddy Landau
Some applications place informational text over their icons in the Launcher.
For example, Thunderbird shows the unread message count, and Update Manager shows the number of updates available and a progress bar. The image shows these two examples:
I have created some Bash scripts that use yad (a Zenity fork), which adds an icon to the Launcher while running.
I would like to know how I can create my own information overlay within my script for those icons.