Questions tagged [indicator]
Indicators are the icons that are located in the upper panel, doing things like estimating the battery level, displaying the current time, letting you adjust your volume, etc.
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Top Menu Battery indicator not showing correctly
I have recently installed Ubuntu 20.04.2 on my new laptop. Everything is working fine but there is problem with indicator on top menu. Whenever I plugin my laptop the sound alert for charging is heard ...
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Bluetooth Indicator Disappears after Turning off
I've checked the threads Bluetooth indicator disappears (...) and Bluetooth Settings Missing from Upper Right Corner (...)
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How to get temperature indicators in the panel in 14.04
I was formerly using 10.04, where I had nice temperature indicators for my dual core like this :
I am now trying to have the same feature with 14.04, but I haven't succeeded yet.
I tried so far :
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How can I add a custom python indicator to the unity-greeter login screen?
I've installed a custom indicator called PRIME Indicator and it shows up in the top panel (next to date time etc) after I login.
I would like to show the indicator before login on the unity-greeter ...
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Is there a way to make Caps Lock led indicator to indicate current keyboard layout?
In Ubuntu 13.10 and older there were a keyboard layout option "use keyboard led to show alternative layout", so I could use it to have caps lock LED indicating current keyboard layout. Now there is no ...
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Searchable Clipboard Manager, like ctrl-r in bash
I am looking for a clipboard manager with search functionality.
I love CtrlR in the bash shell and would like to have the same functionality like that in clipboard manager for my desktop.
Up to now I ...
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Ubuntu Mate battery charge indicator disappears after reboot
I've installed Ubuntu, installed Mate on it, customized placement of panels. Now every time I reboot, the battery indicator icon isn't shown on the panel until I right-click it, choose "Add to Panel.....
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Dash to Panel not showing running indicator for Nautilus
I use the extension Dash to Panel to combine the top bar and the dock, because I have a small 768p screen and both things takes a lot of space.
Since I upgraded to 21.10 the bottom bar doesn't show ...
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Why do I have 2 Viber appicons on my tray
If I restart extension Ubuntu Appindicators, then only one icon stays.
Ubuntu is 21.10 and Viber is 16.1.0.37
If I grep Viber in processes, situation is same, before and after restarting ...
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Blank status bar icons appearing on top after suspend/resume in Ubuntu 21.10
After I suspend and resume my laptop (ThinkPad P52s) running Ubuntu 21.10, blank spots appear next to the AppIndicators on the left side of the screen. These blank spots grow in number every time I ...
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App Indicators not working on Ubuntu 18.04
This is with a fresh installation of Ubuntu 18.04 using the default GNOME Desktop.
The "tray icons" simply don't appear in the top panel. "Ubuntu appindicators" shell extension is active, but doesn't ...
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14.10: Battery indicator stuck on 64%
Yesterday I saw that when I plugged my laptop the battery indicator still showed me that I was on battery life instead of direct power. The percentage was 65% and after a few hours on power the ...
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Ubuntu 20.04.3 LTS Battery Indicator
For the past week I have noticed that when I bring my laptop (Lenovo Thinkpad T420) out of sleep mode I am missing the battery indicator.
I have used the following command to try to alleviate the ...
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App indicator icons too small after update to Ubuntu 20.04
After updating to Ubuntu 20.04, app indicators became very small, and now when an app like Telegram has notifications, they are just overlapping the whole icon. Is there a way to adjust this manually?
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No Dropbox icon in the indicator panel?
I have recently installed Ubuntu on my machine and everything has been working fine, except I don't see the Dropbox indicator. I have installed and re-installed Dropbox multiple times and can confirm ...
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20.04 MATE desktop - clock in panel occasionally shows UTC
Testing a newly upgraded Ubuntu 20.04 system with the MATE desktop installed.
The panel clock normally shows the desired US Central Time. But every now and then it sneakily reverts to UTC - This ...
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Task manager a UI like with Windows 10's one
I like the UI in the Windows 10 task manager:
In particular, I like the fact that the most important four shared resources on a computer are displayed without spurious information, and the color-...
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Terminal command or keyboard shortcut for opening the indicator applet
I wanna configure my top right corner as a hot corner that opens the indicator applet, but I can't find the command to execute that action.
Does anybody know which one it is?
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How to remove Windows List form Ubuntu-MATE Top Panel
I managed to delete my top panel on an Ubuntu-MATE (14.04) desktop. Then I restored it, but by mistake I also added the Windows List indicator.
How can I remove it? It's already in the bottom panel ...
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Opening a piece of software from anywhere [duplicate]
I have a compiled program in a certain folder that I would like to access from anywhere without needing the write ./path/to/file/each/time/app_name. For example, the app executable is installed in ...
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How can I get a world clock indicator?
I am now running Ubuntu 11.04, but I remember that in previous versions of Ubuntu you had an interesting functionality in the clock indicator. You could see how late it was in some places in the world ...
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Change calendar language to English
The calendar in Ubuntu is not in English. I've installed on two separate machines and the language is still the same. The language system wide is English.
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Battery indicator is stuck on "estimating"?
After installing Ubuntu 10.10, the battery indicator worked fine (both percent remaining and estimation on time). I then installed and configured some software (Skype, Pidgin, Thunderbird, removed ...
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What does this indicate in 18.04?
Often I have this screen while doing things on my laptop:
What is this and what does it indicate? The brightness of the screen automatically dims when this appears and can't be restored to normal, ...
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Wrong battery percentage when using ubuntu
I am using Ubuntu 21.04 dual boot with windows 10. When I use Ubuntu the battery percentage which is shown is not consistent. sometimes when I connect the charge, I hear the sound that comes from my ...
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How to stop "cable snake" symbol from appearing in taskbar?
Ever since a recent update of Ubuntu (through the standard update prompt - not a major version update), the "cable snake" symbol keeps appearing in the taskbar every few seconds. i.e. the ...
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Ubuntu 18.04 chrome appindicator
does someone know how to make the chrome tray icon appear in the top bar
just like this ?
I can't get it to work, the only icons that appear there for me, are Teams and OBS .
Here are my extensions
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Ubuntu MATE 20.04 - How to remove Reminders indicator from panel [duplicate]
I tried out evolution and decided I didn't care for it. During the process this Reminders indicator appeared on the panel.
I've now uninstalled and purged evolution but I still have this, now non-...
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Sound and sound applet disappeared and won't come back
Recently (I don't don't know when, might have been after an update) the sound indicator disappeared from my panel, and I haven't been getting any sound either. I tried installing the indicator-sound ...
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How can one show the disk read/write speed as number in the panel?
I'd like to show read/write speeds in the panel as numbers.
I know that it is possible to show a graph using System Load Indicator, and that it is possible to show numbers using System Monitor ...
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What could I use instead of the GNOME panel applet "Character Palette" in unity
As there is nothing like GNOME panel applets in Unity, I would like to ask about some possibility to supercede the "Character Palette", a function that I used a lot for comfortable embedding of ...
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Add custom indicator to lightdm-slick-greeter
I'm trying to add a custom indicator to the lightdm-slick-greeter I'm using.
I have 2 batteries in my laptop and would like to be able to see both batteries on my loginscreen. I looked through a few ...
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Flatpak app indicators not showing in top panel
Under the GNOME desktop, app indicators for applications installed as Flatpaks are not showing up in the top panel.
App indicators for applications installed as Snaps, as well as through APT, show ...
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Time in top bar with applications in Ubuntu 20.04.2 LTS
In my desktop, the top bar has the file through help menus for the current application, but I have to click the windows key to show the time etc on top. Is there a way to show that top bar with the ...
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How to Add a Monochrome Spotify Indicator Icon?
Spotify's green colored "tray" icon looks out of place on Ubuntu's Unity bar, next to the other monochrome icons. In addition to the color, the size of the icon is a bit too large. How can an ...
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Adding applications section under "Sound" as an indicator
May i learn any way to achieve that via a GUI indicator and have a sound mixer for each of the applications (such as spotify and skype) to set the volume differently?? Think the section shown on ...
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How can I change/customize the icons in my notification area?
Currently, I can change themes and icons through the Appearance dialog, but this leaves things like the Skype, Dropbox, and Firestarter icons in the notification area unchanged. Where are these ...
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Losing indicator applet complete from my panel
Sometimes I lose the indicator applet complete from my panel.
I looked in syslog, but there is no entry showing it closing down.
I need help diagnosing how to fix that problem.
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How to run an action when clicking on an appindicator
I'm looking at writing a simple app indicator and I need it to update it's information whenever it's clicked on to open the menu. Is there any kind of on_click action thing?
Let me rephrase it then: ...
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AppIndicator documentation for Python
Where has the documentation for the Python bindings to AppIndicator gone?
Visiting this official looking page, all the links are broken.
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Laptop battery charges only on low or medium battery percent and automatically stops at 100%
So basically, I have an "Asus E402S" Model Laptop. I installed "Ubuntu 20.04 LTS" on it about a week ago. After installation and using it for some time, I noticed a problem that i ...
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How do I disable touchpad while typying in Ubuntu 18.04 with LXDE?
I installed Touchpad indicator recently. At the beginning it did disable the touchpad for 2 seconds after typing, even though the delay was supposed to be only 300 miliseconds. Anyway,something unkown ...
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Shutdown and User button missing in panel
I faced with a problem after update,
I missed 2 buttons from above panel, System menu (including shutdown, suspend & …) and User (including log out & …)
how can I restore them !?...
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What does the indicator icon with three dots over a power plug mean in Ubuntu 20.04?
I have a Dell XPS 15 9570 with a Dell WD19 Dock and on this Dock I have 2 Monitors. The internal Monitor of the Notebook is off but the Lid is open.
I have installed Ubuntu 20.04 LTS.
Everything is ...
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Power indicator randomly drops to 0% when turned on
I'm using a System76 laptop with Ubuntu 20.04 and haven't had issues in two years of usage. However, shortly after I updated to 20.04, my PC suddenly started to turn on with 0% battery, no matter how ...
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How to get a unread messages counter on the Evolution app icon on Ubuntu Dock?
How I can get unread messages counter on the Evolution app icon on Ubuntu Dock? I'm using Ubuntu 20.04 and its not working.
Previously I used 20.10 and there it worked correct, but I decited to stick ...
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what is the difference between "notification area" (systray), "indicator plugin" (indicator) and "status notifier plugin" (statusnotifier)
I got mildly annoyed that duplicate wi-fi and bluetooth icons were showing up in my panel, and tracked it down to the fact that they were showing up in both systray and statusnotifier plugins. Can ...
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How to re-enable tray icons for applications in Ubuntu?
Unfortunately in Ubuntu 13.10 there is no tray icon and whitelisting is removed.
The older solutions do not work for me, e.g. I get the message: No such schema 'com.canonical.Unity.Panel' when I try ...
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How do I write a Unity system indicator in Python?
Background:
This is NOT for application-indicators but system-indicators.
Picture from: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DesktopExperienceTeam/ApplicationIndicators
The objective is to show indicator-...
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How to develop a System Indicator for Unity?
This is not a duplicate of How to create Unity indicators?. I'm looking for system indicator not application indicator.
Backgound:
From these two questions:
How do I add or manipulate Application/...
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