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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Pidgin messages remain in messaging menu/indicator even after read
I upgraded to 13.04 this past weekend. I primarily use thunderbird and pidgin rather than empathy and/or evolution.
Prior to the upgrade, thunderbird integrated into the messaging menu properly but ...
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What are the design guidelines for appindicator icons?
I am creating a Unity AppIndicator using Python + PyGObject, but I wish for it's icon to be in standard Ubuntu style. Where can I find appropriate guidelines for using colours (or is it just ...
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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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File transfer indicator applet?
In gnome-shell when you do a file transfer you get a icon appear in the bar at the top,
I know in unity it shows you the information in the unity Launcher, but I have that set to autohide, so I was ...
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Power cable status not recognized on a Samsung NP530U3B-A01 laptop
I have a Samsung NP530U3B-A01 with Ubuntu 12.04 running Gnome-Shell. Basically it runs pretty well apart from the problem that plugging or unplugging the power-cable is not recognized by the system.
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How can I change the time zone of bandwidthd?
Is there any way to change the UTC offset for the graphs generated by bandwidthd?
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Can't get iconify() and deiconify() to work properly
I'm writing app for Ubuntu with C++ and Gtkmm. In my app i use libappindicator to show icon with simple menu in notification area. Icon and menu works ok, i can minimize window to panel (using ...
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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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How to make popup volume bar linear instead of pixely box?
I used to have a nice sleek-looking linear popup volume slider bar like this:
Now I have a pixelly volume slider box whenever I change the volume on my keyboard:
How do I change my pop-up ...
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Custom widgets/controls in application indicators
I want to develop an app for ubuntu, that integrates inside the calendar indicator/menu. It should allow to enter info right from it, and have several controls like input boxes, drop downs, spinners ...
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Is there a per-application volume control indicator?
There was per-application volume control applet for Gnome 2.
There is a per-app volume control extension for Gnome-Shell.
Is there any indicator applet for Unity like this two?
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How to remove the Skype panel icon in Ubuntu 13.04?
This question has been answered a couple of times on this site for other versions of Ubuntu, but the proposed solutions no longer work in Ubuntu 13.04. Specifically, I tried the solution described ...
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How can I change the desktop volume indicator color in GNOME 3.8?
Right now, whenever I use my volume up and down buttons in GNOME 3.8 on 13.04, it displays a white volume indicator.
I'm wondering if there is any way to change this to use a black & white ...
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Second monitor missing skype and guake panel icons (indicators)
I have a dual monitor set up. On the primary monitor I have my launcher and my panel as always. The panel shows all my usual indicators for volume, network manager, skype, everpad, dropbox, etc. ...
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System load indicator only display in system tray
System load indicator (indicator-multiload) starts only in system tray part of the panel. Therefore, having more than one monitor/meters (e.g. CPU, network) will only occupy the space of a single ...
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Why I get a message of outdated packages minutes after I have updated?
I have getting a yellow exclamation mark in the top panel on 12.04. It tells me I have updates that are outdated when I just updated a few minutes ago. How do you correct the updates?
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Why does the bluetooth indicator not show?
Ubuntu 12.10 64 bit
$ psg blue
simon 2852 2713 0 15:15 ? 00:00:00 bluetooth-applet
root 4143 1 0 15:17 ? 00:00:00 /usr/sbin/bluetoothd
$ gsettings get ...
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How can I get the current network traffic broken down by subnet
I'm trying to modify one of my extensions that shows network traffic from my computer (For an indicator). I'd like to be able to quantify how much of the network traffic I see is coming/going to the ...
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Empathy doesn't show properly on indicator menu (12.10)
Whenever I get a message on Facebook or gtalk, a bubble pops in the upper right corner, and I hear a sound. But, the message icon doesn't turn blue, and no "new messages" or such is displayed.
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Sound indicator broken after 12.10 update (shows 3 dashes), sound settings shows no devices
Im using Ubuntu 12.10 and my sound has worked great so far.
After installing an update I get the same problem described here ...
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Unable to show correctly symbolic icons with appindicator
I'm creating an app under Ubuntu 12.04 and using libappindicator and Vala. I want to use a symbolic icon, to ensure that the colors are adapted to the background in the status bar. Unfortunately, I'm ...
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Why do some indicator icons have gtk2 and gtk3 versions, while others have only a single version that works with both libraries?
For example, in Ubuntu we have:
indicator-application
indicator-application-gtk2
indicator-sound
indicator-sound-gtk2
but other indicators have only a single version that works on both:
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When I log in I am notified by a pop up stating “I cannot detect any system tray”
When I log into my account I encounter a pop-up stating that it cannot detect a system tray on the system. I no longer have a launcher, a dash or anything. only a few icons on my desktop. I cannot see ...
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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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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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how to add padding to indicators?
before unity/gnome-shell it was just a matter of moving it, or adding spacing widgets, and you had the padding you want.
now I'm clueless how to remove the clutter around the clock!
before i used to ...
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How to remove extra spacing displayed with a custom Unity 2D clock format?
I tried the solution suggested here
- How do I adjust the Clock Indicator format?
It worked, but there's one problem now... There is too much space before and after the date/time now, as you can ...
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Power off image suddenly disappear in Indicator status menus,why?
After I install virtualbox on my ubuntu
Power off image suddenly disappear in Indicator status menus
In addition,the software have force close which is in background software
please see the upper ...
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Clock settings are disabled from Time & Date Settings
In my time & Date settings clock settings seems to be disable. Which default package is missing on my system ?
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Battery indicator shows the wrong battery
I recently bought a secondary battery for my Dell Latitude D620 that fits into the CD drive. There are a couple problems:
First, it drains the secondary battery first. I'm OK with that, but when it ...
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disk usage statistics tools
I'm looking for a tool that gathers disk usage statistics over time and can display the data.
It will be nice to be able see the data in a table and in a graph.
I basically want the info df -h over ...
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User pixmap in user applet is not appearing
I am newbie to Ubuntu and I got a problem with indicator applet that in user pixmap is not appearing; instead a blank image is appearing. I don't have enough reputations.
See below image:
Sorry for ...
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Appindicator Icon Animation
I'm writing a software using pygobject for GTK+3 (Ubuntu 12.04, stable repo package versions for all dev tools) and I'd like my application to have animated AppIndicator icon.
It's easy to make ...
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RedNotebook not shown in unity indicator?
RedNotebook icon is not shown in unity indicator when started with rednotebook -m. How can I fix this?
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Unity Mail. How can I open a new message by clicking on it?
How to make unity-mail to open new massages by clicking on it?
I mean not opening the GMail page, but open the message.
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How can I get the network manager indicator?
I've tried the suggestions in Network manager indicator missing (and rebooted), but I still don't have a Network Manager indicator.
How can I diagnose the problem?
For what it's worth, I'm using ...
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battery indicate 6% (6 min) but it last for 1 hr
after full charge indicates 99% and around 2 hr but few minutes later it drops to 6% but it last for 1.5 hr. Its anoying cause I don't know when the laptop stops.
Glad to receive any advise!
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Remove menu entries from indicator-applet-complete
I would like to remove shutdown entry from indicator-applet-complete in gnome-classic session in Ubuntu 12.04. Is there a way to achieve that? I don't want to prevent shutdown but just remove entry so ...
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Wireless Connection Issues
I am having issues in my labs with ubuntu. I have ubuntu installed as a partition on my hard drive and run it as a seperate OS as opposed to using a Virtual Machine. I cannot use the wireless at all. ...
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Ubuntu 12.04LTS cannot change Date&time and Wallpaper and screen timeout in System Settings
Problem:
Cannot change Date&time settings, there is no response toggling "Weekday", "Date and month" and "12-hour" or "24-hour".
Cannot change Wallpaper.
Cannot change "Turn screen off when ...
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How do I get my clock applet back?
I'm using 12.04 LTS and it appears that I've killed my clock. How do I get it back? I've tried right clicking on the panel but either that's not a feature in 12.04 LTS or I killed that too. (The panel ...
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why indicator-weather does not work in ubuntu 12.04
I installed the weather indicator by using 'sudo apt-get install indicator-weather'; Then I started it and configured it. However at the last step of configuration, I pressed 'apply' and then nothing ...
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Is lxpanel compatible with Unity?
I installed lxpanel in my Unity DE to have a simple taskbar and some more functions I couldn't find in Unity.
It's quite perfect, except for two issues:
1) I've added the menu applet to the panel, ...
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How do I modify the userMenu icon?
I've been looking forums and looked on askubuntu in order to hide everything but Power Off and User logout from the userMenu but i did not find anything. I could'nt find a file or something containing ...
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Is there an application to group together many Panel indicators?
I am looking for an application that can be used to manage a large number of indicators in the Panel. What I would like is some method to group the indicators into subsets and hide each subset inside ...
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indicator-messages empathy status not working
I installed pidgin and uninstalled it shortly after. After that, the buttons
Available
Away
Busy
Invisible
Offline
don't work anymore. Whichever I press, the dot that ...
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Volume control indicator is not working
When I try to control the volume from the indicator, nothing happens. I have to individually set each application's volume (like Audacious or Totem) from their controls or use the hard controls. I ...
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Battery indicator doesn't change its status (but after reboot)
The problem is the same as here:
The icon does not change when the power cord is plugged in or
unplugged (the icon remains a battery if that was the power source on
boot but won't change if ...
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System load and dropbox applet / indicator in GNOME3 3.6
How do I add a system load applet / indicator and dropbox applet / indicator in GNOME3 3.6?
