Community tool: Linux tray quota indicator for Codex Desktop users

[ydxrobot]

Hi, I built a small unofficial companion utility for Codex Desktop Linux users:

https://github.com/YudongN/codex-quota-linux

It provides a Linux AppIndicator tray menu for:

• showing current 5h / weekly quota
• monitoring multiple saved Codex account slots
• soft-switching local Codex auth between account slots
• sending a tiny request to activate rolling 5h windows
• refreshing / switching / activating from the tray menu

This is not affiliated with OpenAI or this repository. It depends on unstable Codex internal API surfaces, so it may break when upstream changes.

I’m sharing it here because this repository is the main Linux desktop workflow I use, and the tool is mainly useful for similar Codex Desktop Linux setups.

If this is useful to other users, I’m happy to keep it as an external tool, or open a small docs PR only if maintainers think a “community tools” note would be appropriate.

[KaiStarkk]

@YudongN This looks nice. I've been using a custom waybar widget to show the the "bankable resets" and reset expiry which is exposed on their API but not documented, could be a nice feature to add to yours too:

Not part of this repository though I would think.

[ydxrobot]

Thanks for taking a look and suggestions.

The bankable resets / reset expiry idea sounds useful. I will add it to codex-quota-linux asap, welcome to follow.

I mentioned the tool here because Codex CLI already has a user-configurable statusline for terminal workflows, so I see this utility as mainly useful for codex-desktop-linux or similar desktop users.

I previously experimented with a persistent status-bar style optional linux feature in this repo, but because it patched the upstream desktop UI, it drifted quickly when upstream changed. Moving that idea into a small standalone third-party tray utility seems more practical and easier to maintain.

I’ll keep it as an external companion tool rather than something that belongs in this repository, but I appreciate the feature idea and will keep an eye on this use case.