# Privacy Indicator Plugin A privacy indicator widget that monitors and displays when microphone, camera, or screen sharing is active on your system. ## Features - **Microphone Monitoring**: Detects active microphone usage via Pipewire - **Camera Monitoring**: Detects active camera usage by checking `/dev/video*` devices - **Screen Sharing Detection**: Monitors screen sharing sessions via Pipewire - **Visual Indicators**: Shows icons that change color based on active state - Active: Primary color - Inactive: Semi-transparent variant color - **App Information**: Tooltip displays which applications are using each resource - **Adaptive Layout**: Automatically adjusts layout for horizontal or vertical bar positions ## Configuration Access the plugin settings in Noctalia to configure the following options: - **Hide Inactive States**: If enabled, microphone, camera, and screen icons are hidden whenever they are inactive. Only active states are shown. - **RemoveMargins**: If enabled, removes all outer margins of the widget. - **Icon Spacing**: Controls the horizontal/vertical spacing between the icons. ## Usage The widget displays three icons in the bar: - **Microphone**: Shows when any app is using the microphone - **Camera**: Shows when any app is accessing the camera - **Screen Share**: Shows when screen sharing is active Hover over the widget to see a tooltip listing which applications are using each resource. ## Requirements - Noctalia Shell 3.6.0 or higher - Pipewire (for microphone and screen sharing detection) - Access to `/dev/video*` devices (for camera detection) ## Technical Details - Updates privacy state every second - Uses Pipewire API to monitor audio/video streams - Checks `/proc/[0-9]*/fd/` for camera device access - Detects screen sharing by analyzing Pipewire node properties and media class