🎤 mic-icon

It's volumeicon for microphones! But, it sucks and it's written in an inferior language and it only works on Linux 😅 (sorry, I'm honestly incompetent with other OSs).

In this modern internet dystopia, I often share my screen and disable notifications when presenting. This means that I don't get to see my "Microphone is [STATE]" notifications when sharing (I do tend to mute a fair bit for coughs). Imagine muting and forgetting to unmute as you continue to speak… OOOOH!!! THE MODERN SHAME that we snowflakes can't handle 😭.

With that spiel said, I just needed something that "aims to be a lightweight mic status indicator that sits in your systray" and here it is… TADA! just like volumeicon, it's mic-icon!

I really just wrote this for myself and sharing it on the internet 🤷‍♂️. Good luck!

Dependencies

• any rational recent version of Python 3
  • this thing is so simple, so I'll be surprised if we're facing any version incompatibilities already.
• pulsectl
• pygobject
• pactl command (part of the pulseAudio or pipewire-pulse packages)
• GTK 3.0 (via your system package manager)
• AppIndicator3 (via your system package manager)

Installation

virtualenv is the way!

python -m venv .venv

then activate the venv…

source .venv/bin/activate

(if you're a fish user, it would be source .venv/bin/activate.fish 😉)

then…

pip install . 

then…

mic-icon

and now you have it! symlink that ./.venv/bin/mic-icon SUMBITCH somewhere in your PATH= and run it on start-up — or however, the heck you want.