Thank you so much for this!! This is the best solution, being able to see WHY my system isn't responding -- still waiting for a more granularly adjustable Timeshift, i.e., being able to tell it to wait until I'm NOT IN THE MIDDLE OF AN IMPORTANT FUNCTION DURING WORK HOURS before it starts...

I cant use, it just reports backup device not found, i assume it doesnt work on a partition basis.

I nicog60! It works very well on my Linux Mint 19.3. I'm so happy with it that I even had fun customizing the icons! But why is it that towards the end of writing a Timeshift-spy snapshot I get a warning that it's over when the external disk on which I put the snapshots seems to be still active (blinking led) for more than a minute? If I unplugged it or turned off the computer during this time, would I risk breaking something? Congratulations for your work and thank you for your answer. Translated with www.DeepL.com/Translator (free version)

BTW - easiest way to monitor backups so far (for me) is a new line in conky doing ls-r /snapshots folder with '| head -1' to grab the latest item added ( -r just makes it the newest one). I'd like this information, instead of a fancy 'T' icon, displayed as number of hours, or number of days since last snapshot.

This is interesting - however it would be better to have an option to NOT have another icon cluttering up the panel unless it has something interesting to report... So +1 point for giving an indication that Timeshift is backing up. -1 point for having no access to 'last successful snapshot' time/date -1 point for not being able to hide the icon at all. Maybe an extra option that the icon can be visible only as a warning either if there's a snapshot running, orno snapshot has been made within a 24 hour or other user defined period... Having this icon hidden means it can't do what it needs to do... and it also is incapable of telling us the date/time of any previous backup.

Hello. I was wondering why my PC was slow this evening. Updating your applet shows the spinning icon and it tells that Timeshift is performing a backup. It looks OK now. Thank you very much. Also I will report later if any problem occurs.

Today's update (Updated on 2020-05-03 22:37:19) is NOT crashing cinnamon and looks like my non-OS HDD, where the backup is stored, is being recognized. Looks OK now. I will report later if any problem occurs. My system: https://termbin.com/r0l8

Hello. Today's update : removing old applet, reloading the applets cache, downloading the new version, then installing the new version -> No Cinnamon crash, but error message : "there was an error when loading Timeshift-spy. Contact the author" However, the applet is installed, but still grayed with the error message "Backup device not connected", in my local language with this new version (french). Timeshift backup is performed on the OS HDD.

Hello. After today's update, still grayed icon with "Backup device not found", while Timeshift is configured to save backup on the hard drive at "/timeshift/snapshots"

Hello. When Timeshift backup is configured on the hard drive, the applet icon is faded as if the backup device is absent or not connected.