Display IP address on the system tray on Ubuntu

In some cases, troubleshooting a problem requires a computer IP address to check the system IP address. If you are using Ubuntu and want to find the available IP address on your computer, you can display IP address in the system tray.

In the following article, the network administrator will show you how to display the IP address in the system tray.

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How to display the IP address on the system tray on Ubuntu?

To display the IP address on the system tray on Ubuntu you will have to rely on the help of the 3rd tool. The third tool that the Network Administrator wants to mention here is Indicator-IP.

To download and install Indicator-IP on Ubuntu systems, run the following commands:

sudo apt-add ppa repository: bovender / bovender

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get install indicator-ip

After installation is complete, you can run the tool by running the following command:

indicator-ip

Or press Alt + F2 .

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Features and usage of Indicator-IP

The purpose of Indicator-IP is to display IP-related information on your Unbuntu computer. Using the tool is quite simple. After Indicator-IP launches, there is no interface on the screen, and a new icon - the icon that displays the Public IP address appears on the left side of the system tray on your computer.

Public IP address is the address that confirms your computer on the Internet.

Not only IP Public address, Indicator-IP also display Local IP addresses on Ubuntu, to do this you have to click on the indicator menu.

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If you want the tool to display the Local IP address as an indicator icon, just click on the corresponding item on the menu, such as the illustration below:

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If you want to control the behavior from the command, the "-i" option allows you to do this. For example, the following command will open the tool to display the public IP address as an indicator icon:

indicator-ip -i public

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And the following command will make sure that the Local IP address (or eth0 interface) is displayed in the system tray by default:

indicator-ip -u -i eth0

The address information provided by Indicator-IP tool is from service " checkip.amazonaws.com ". But you can ask the tool to get information from other alternative services, such as " icanhazip.com ".

To change the default service from 'checkip.amazonaws.com' to 'icanhazip.com' or other services you want, you can use the "-u" option . Here is an example:

indicator-ip -u icanhazip.com

Refer to some of the following articles:

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Good luck!

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