Made for Fedora with the GNOME desktop (tested on Fedora 44).
Services Tray puts your systemd services in the system tray. Click the icon, pick a service, and start, stop or restart it. You can also add links to a service, such as its web dashboard, and open them from the same menu.
- Shows each service with a coloured dot: 🟢 running, 🟠 starting or stopping, 🔴 stopped, ⚪ unknown.
- Starts, stops and restarts user and system services. System services may ask for your password.
- Opens a service's links in your browser, for example Dashboard →
http://127.0.0.1:9001. - Exports your list to a file and imports it again, so you can restore it after reinstalling.
- Can start automatically when you log in.
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GNOME shows tray icons only with the AppIndicator extension. Install it, then turn it on in the Extensions app:
sudo dnf install gnome-shell-extension-appindicator
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Download the RPM from the latest release and install it:
sudo dnf install ./services-tray-0.3.0-1.x86_64.rpm
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Open Services Tray from the app grid.
Other desktops with a system tray, such as KDE Plasma or Xfce, may work but are not tested.
- Add a service: tray icon → Add Service… → choose User or System, pick the service from the list (or type its name) and click Add.
- Control it: tray icon → the service → Start, Restart or Stop. Only the actions that make sense right now can be clicked.
- Add a link: tray icon → Manage Services… → the pencil next to the
service → Add Link. Enter a title and an address, like
127.0.0.1:80, and click Save. The link appears below Start, Restart and Stop. - Start at login: tray icon → Start tray on login.
- Before reinstalling: Manage Services… → menu (☰) → Export Services…, and keep the file somewhere safe.
- After reinstalling: install Services Tray, open Manage Services… and click Import Services….
If a service is already in the list with different settings, Services Tray asks whether to replace it or keep it.
Your list is saved in ~/.config/services-tray/services.json. You can edit it
by hand; restart Services Tray afterwards.
With Rust installed:
sudo dnf install gtk4-devel libadwaita-devel
cargo install cargo-generate-rpm # only once
cargo build --release
cargo generate-rpm -o dist/rpm/The package is created in dist/rpm/.
- No icon in the panel: no tray is running. On GNOME, turn on the AppIndicator extension.
- It does not start at login: check that Start tray on login has a ✔.
To see why it failed, run
journalctl --user -b | grep -i services-tray.
MIT, see LICENSE.