Do AppIndicators work on Xubuntu?

It should definitely be possible because the indicators are made to be cross-platform.

It appears that someone has developed an xfce panel applet to do provide this functionality: http://goodies.xfce.org/projects/panel-plugins/xfce4-indicator-plugin

It doesn't seem very mature though - its at version 0.0.1, which is the first stable release. It is not packaged but is available as source code.


  1. There is an XFCE panel plugin that should make it possible to put most GNOME panel applets into the XFCE panel.
  2. The indicator applet is a GNOME panel applet.

Maybe you can try if 1 supports 2?