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The Spotify indicator icon clashes with the native Unity theme, and is redundant, since it is already listed in the Sound indicator menu. Is there a way to remove or disable the Spotify indicator? Or at least to change the icon (couldn't grep it on my filesystem). I am using the Spotify "preview" with 12.04. Thanks!

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Instead of removing it from your system, why not just make it look good and native in Ubuntu. While your at it why not just make Spotify look native in the interface as well via Ambiance? Sound hard? Well yes it massively freaking was! BUT I did it and you can use it if you want. :) michaeltunnell.com/blog/16-linux/… – Michael Tunnell Jan 14 at 9:40

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The best way to do this is to remove the icon used by spotify to display the indicator. This can be done by executing the following command in the terminal,

sudo mv /usr/share/spotify/theme/other/_linux/icon.ico /home/user_name/icon.ico

Replace user_name with your user name. This should effectively disable the spotify indicator. Exit spotify and restart spotify to notice the change.

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This did work, for those looking at balloons's answer. – Syzygy Nov 22 '12 at 19:27
This doesn't work any more since Spotify 0.8.8.323... – Syzygy Jan 7 at 2:51
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It could be worth trying to use apparmor to prevent spotify from loading the icon.

/etc/apparmor.d/usr.bin.spotify

/usr/bin/spotify {

  # deny read access to the icon
  deny /usr/share/spotify/theme/other/_linux/icon.ico r,
}

sudo /etc/init.d/apparmor reload

Wait for a few seconds and try running spotify again.

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This didn't work for me, somehow. – Syzygy Nov 22 '12 at 19:27

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