I'm using Ubuntu MATE 14.04 LTS, 16.04 LTS and 18.04 LTS.
I want to change current keyboard layout indication from text (for example ru
, en
) to the corresponding country flags.
How can I do this?
On Ubuntu MATE 18.04 LTS and newer you need to send one command:
gsettings set org.mate.peripherals-keyboard-xkb.indicator show-flags true
it will change MATE Panel appearance from
to
On Ubuntu 16.04 LTS having MATE 1.12 this method does not work out-the-box (it is bug 1783543), but we have two options here:
download flags manually and place them in home folder:
mkdir -p ~/.icons/flags
cd ~/.icons/flags/
wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/linuxmint/flags/master/usr/share/iso-flag-png/{ru,us}.png
then toggle layout indicator state:
gsettings set org.mate.peripherals-keyboard-xkb.indicator show-flags false
gsettings set org.mate.peripherals-keyboard-xkb.indicator show-flags true
and we will get flags in place. Note: I used ru
and us
, you can pick others from LinuxMint GitHub repository.
use newer MATE 1.16 from official xenial-mate PPA:
sudo apt-add-repository ppa:ubuntu-mate-dev/xenial-mate
sudo apt update
sudo apt full-upgrade
then enable flags
gsettings set org.mate.peripherals-keyboard-xkb.indicator show-flags true
and we can get flags in place after reboot and login.
On Ubuntu 14.04 LTS we need to download flags manually (as in 16.04 LTS):
mkdir -p ~/.icons/flags
cd ~/.icons/flags/
wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/linuxmint/flags/master/usr/share/iso-flag-png/{ru,us}.png
then toggle layout indicator state:
gsettings set org.mate.peripherals-keyboard-xkb.indicator show-flags false
gsettings set org.mate.peripherals-keyboard-xkb.indicator show-flags true
and we will get flags in place.
gnome
)? NB: you lost connection after appearance change
indicator-keyboard
) and GNOME FlashBack (using gnome-panel
with indicator-keyboard
) on Ubuntu 14.04 LTS and 16.04 LTS.