Cosmic Privacy Indicator

Privacy indicator for the COSMIC Desktop.

This applet detects Microphone and Camera usage, as well as Screen Sharing/Recording.

PipeWire is required for this applet to work.

You can just grab the .deb, .rpm or tarball from the releases page

Clone the repository:

git clone https://github.com/D-Brox/cosmic-ext-applet-privacy-indicator cosmic-ext-applet-privacy-indicator
cd cosmic-ext-applet-privacy-indicator

Install the build dependencies (or equivalent packages in non debian-based distros):

• libxkbcommon-dev
• libpipewire-0.3-dev

Build and install the project:

just build-release
sudo just install

For alternative packaging methods, use the one of the following recipes:

• deb: run just build-deb and sudo just install-deb
• rpm: run just build-rpm and sudo just install-rpm

For vendoring, use just vendor and just vendor-build

A justfile is included with common recipes used by other COSMIC projects:

• just build-debug compiles with debug profile
• just run builds and runs the application
• just check runs clippy on the project to check for linter warnings
• just check-json can be used by IDEs that support LSP

Code is distributed with the GPL-3.0-only license