Indicators are the icons that sit 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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Display current layout (language code/country flag) in keyboard indicator
Just upgraded from 10.04 to 10.10, and the keyboard indicator applet no longer displays the two-letter country code for the active layout.
This is terrible. Is this the default behaviour? Anyone ...
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Broken Indicators in 12.10
Several of the indicators don't work for me in Ubuntu 12.10. Specifically, indicator-sensors and the Skype indicator (I also used the ubuntuone indicator, but that hasn't come out yet for 12.10).
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Can I customize only an application's indicator icon?
Can I change this Easystroke icon:
but not change this one?
I'm interested the general answer for any application, not one that is specific to Easystroke.
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How to tweak indicator-session icon?
Which icon is indicator-session using? I want to tweak it manually but I didn't manage to find it out under /usr/share/icons.
Is there a general way to find out which icon a certain application is ...
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A simple timer app, similar to timer-applet
I'm looking for a simple countdown timer application, something similar to timer-applet, which appears to be deprecated. (It's in the repositories but when I tried to install it there were dependency ...
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Where are my tray icons in the Unity 2D panel?
I can not see any icons in the notification area. I am using Unity 2D in Ubuntu 11.10
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Where are they?
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The language changer applet disappeared
I am running Ubuntu 12.04.1 LTS and my language changer applet just disappeared for all users. Every user has more than 1 keyboard layout, but on login the applet does not appear. The configured key ...
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Unity Menu Bar Indicators missing theme
I recently upgraded from 12.04 to 12.10 and the indicator menus look horrible, like an old version of Windows. It has some sort of border around menu items. How can I fix this?
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Setting APPMENU_DISPLAY_BOTH for gtk3 applications does not work
To start the application with the menu enabled in the application and the panel, the following command has to be used:
APPMENU_DISPLAY_BOTH=1 appname
I recently discovered that this only works for ...
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Don't show gwibber messages in indicator applet
Gwibber turns the indicator-applet-icon blue, each time a new tweet appears in my timeline, which is always.
It is therefore no longer usefull as a "there is a new message for you" resulting in many ...
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Where is the messaging menu in 12.10? [closed]
All of a sudden, after the volume slider disappeared, now the messaging menu has disappeared too!
after the last update, now the messaging menu does not show anything written!
here is a screenshot-
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Indicator broken in 12.10 [closed]
After upgrading my battery isn't detected, and the indicator doesn't show. Worked fine in 12.04 I added acpi=force to grub didn't help.
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session indicator icon goes wrong after I upgrade to 12.10
I upgraded my 12.04 to 12.10 yesterday, everything goes fine.
But I found the little gear icon of session indicator was show incorrectly.
I've re-installed the indicator-session package and changed ...
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Line of Pixels when changing Volume 12.10
When I change the volume in Ubuntu 12.10 it has an orange line of pixels that appear for a second above the volume indicator(?) that appears at the top right of the screen.
This is a clean install, ...
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Is there a Google Reader Indicator?
Is there a working Google Reader unread feed indicator? Some sort of applet that checks for new unread messages from Google reader and displays their title in a drop down menu or through the notify ...
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Where is directory for keyboard indicator flag picture in GNOME 3?
For unity environment, I know it is /usr/share/pixmaps/flags + change setting org.gnome.libgnomekbd.indicator to true, which is totally successful.
But for Gnome-shell ,both default and classic, ...
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I need a netspeed-applet like indicator
I have a hybrid (variable speed) mobile broadband connection that keeps changing the download/upload speeds based on location and time-of-day. So, the netspeed-applet in the previous versions of ...
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No application icon in Unity bar with Skype 4.0
After installing Skype 4.0 on Ubuntu Precise, I see its indicator in top bar, but there is no running application icon on the left, thus I can't focus into it and pin to the Launcher.
I had 2.2 ...
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Thunderbird new messages indicator doesn't show with ubuntu 12.10 [closed]
A similar topic had been closed because of a beta release.
I'm using final release and I confirm the problem. I've tried with a brand new profile of Thunderbird, nothing.
I can hear the sound, but ...
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How do I hide my custom Unity panel indicators from another user account on the same machine?
I created a second user account on my machine, making it a "standard" user account. When I log into that account, most of the panel indicators I've added in my own administrator user account show up ...
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Ryhthmbox missing problem
I have a problem with ryhthmbox,
After update packages, I missed ryhthmbox,
It doesn't exists in panel (ryhthmbox menu) and even in software list . . .
so what should I do? How can I install it ...
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How do I add Facebook notifications to the messaging menu?
The messaging menu is meant to be a single place where you can access all of your communications. Can I add Facebook notifications and inbox messages to it, so I am notified when someone talks to me?
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How to permanently disable user switching in Gnome 3?
I have six boys, and they tend to ask another parent when wanting to use one of the computers, but don't bother asking the logged in user if they're finished. All four machines are running Ubuntu ...
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How to show spreedX client ApplicationIndicator?
For my job I require the use of the spreedX client which allows me to share my desktop when using the Spreed web conferencing environment (www.spreed.com). In pre-Unity Ubuntu versions, this ...
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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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System load indicator does not indicate network activity for Huawei dongles
I have System load indicator installed which works perfectly except it shows no activity when I connect to the internet via a USB dongle. It works well when I connect via WiFi or Ethernet cable. How ...
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What does indicator-application-service do?
My attention was brought to a process named indicator-application-service because it was idling at 28% CPU usage. What does this program do?
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User name on top-right most tray vanished!
User name on top-right most tray vanished!
I can't see it any more.
I see the power button and directly beside it is the clock, I'm using Ubuntu the latest version until now (v.12) 32-bit
Any ...
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Ubuntu 12.04 LTS fails to recognize my laptop as laptop [closed]
This is probably going to sound like a rookie question, but I have never ever experienced such issue. I had Ubuntu 11.10 without Unity installed on my old laptop Thinkpad Z60m. Few days ago, I got ...
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Menu Bar Time Disappeared
Hello can anyone help me, my time on the menu bar has disappeared, one day I noticed it was gone, in system settings I do not have a time and date option either.
I am running Ubuntu 12.04, please ...
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User indicator Configuration
In user-indicators one user could see all other user names
I want to hide all names from Unity indicator panel
for security reasons I don't want users to see other user names
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Whats the name of the dropdown panel with the IM status?
So I'm trying to work out whats the name of the drop down panel in Ubuntu, the one that lets you set your IM status (online, offline, invisible etc etc).
I was on 12.04 and replaced Empathy with ...
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Application to display battery info
First of all, I am not sure the title of this question is the most appropriate however this is what I meant to say,
There are many ways to extend the life of a laptop battery. One way is by not ...
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Thunderbird new messages indicator didn't show after upgrade to 12.10 [closed]
After upgrade thunderbird constantly won't show in the indicator area new messages. Didn't find working solution.
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How can I add items to the indicator-session menu?
Is it possible to add to or edit the Session Indicator menu items?
Is there an easy way to do this, or would it involve recompiling a custom build?
I cannot find much relating to this online.
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indicator-cpufreq no longer showing up on the panel
I installed indicator-cpufreq some time ago and it worked pretty well. Now, there's a problem that it's running but there's no icon on the bar. When I'm using another account everything is ok, so I ...
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After an update in 12.04, network icon is no longer visible [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Network manager indicator missing
I ran an update yesterday, and shut down at the end of the day. When I started up last night the network icon was missing from the ...
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Is there a program to change the order of the indicators? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Is it possible to change the order of icons in the indicator applet?
I found a way to change the order of the indicators but since the file (1) is quite difficult to ...
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How do I toggle the wifi hardware switch for a Dell XPS 17 L702X?
Every now and then, I disable my wireless via the menu icon in Ubuntu. Then, when I try to enable the wifi, it tells me that "wireless is disabled" or "wireless is disabled by hardware switch". There ...
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How can I make Thunderbird marks the indicators envelope blue?
Upgraded from 10.04 to 12.04 now i don't have notifications on incoming email to Thunderbird on the indicator bar, neither when thunderbird is running nor when it's not.
None of the other similar ...
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How do I force only one instance of my application?
I am developing a program using quickly. I am using an indicator which can hide/show the main window.
But when I launch the application from the launcher it starts a new instance of that application ...
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Internet Connectivity Indicicator on Unity
How can I check whether my internet connection is active on Ubuntu. If I am connected to a wired or wi-fi network, the indicator applet shows that I'm connected. But there is now way to find out the ...
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How do I get Date & Time widget in my system tray?
Somehow I managed to remove the Date & Time widget from my system tray. How do I get it back? Also "Date & Time" no longer appears in System Settings.
I'm running Ubuntu 11.10.
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Indicator applet in MATE
I hate gnome3, so I installed MATE (gnome2 fork) in my Ubuntu 12.04 desktop. It's pretty good, but I have a problem: it doesn’t have (or I haven't found) a working indicator applet on the top panel. ...
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How does one find out which application is associated with an indicator icon?
It is trivial to do this in Ubuntu 10.04. The question is specific to Ubuntu 12.04.
A composition using the dbus with implementation details in followup is missing for some reason so an alter ego ...
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Where are the stock-icon-names defined for the unity-panel-service indicators and notify-OSD?
Layout cases in the Notification | Ubuntu App Developer document states that
... using non-existing (stock-)icon-names ... use one of the new
icon-name (see icons) ...
and that this (icons ...
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How to remove “Ubuntu One” Unity indicator from the top panel in Ubuntu 12.04?
How to remove Ubuntu One Unity indicator from the top panel in Ubuntu 12.04?
There isn't even a quit button.
I checked in the startup apps an no Ubuntu One there.
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Sound & Broadcast Icons Missing?
I had the sound icon in the main menu bar up top, along with the default Broadcast icon up there. All of a sudden they are missing and I can't find them. I can't find them in the Add to Panel menu ...
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Does the Unity environment have aps providing functionality equivalent to indicator-applet for Gnome?
The document:
DesktopExperienceTeam/ApplicationIndicators - Ubuntu Wiki:
states the following:
In the implementation we developed for the Gnome desktop ...
indicator-applet ... is meant to be a ...
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How can the application that makes an indicator icon be identified? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How can menu bars that require a right click be activated like Ubuntu versions <10.10?
It used to be possible to identify the application that was responsible for an ...
