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The driver for my HP printer has installed an indicator in the panel. I have two problems with it.

First, its design doesn't fit that of the panel, so it looks ugly.

Second, it's not very consistent on when it's showed in the panel; it first shows at startup, but if I close the application the indicator disappears. And if I open it again, it appears briefly and then it gets removed automatically.

I would like to not have to close it manually every time for it to disappear. And I would like it even better, if I didn't see it at all.

Any help with for configuring this indicator will be greatly appreciated. Have a nice day.

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Reset to default
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Start by clicking on it and choose Settings.

Then check Always Hide and you're done.

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Good news is : you can uninstall that indicator.

I think the package you need to remove is indicator-printers :

sudo apt-get remove indicator-printers

Then just reboot or reload your session and you're good to go.

To remove other indicators, check which are installed with :

dpkg -l | grep indicator

And you can sudo apt-get remove packagename the one you don't want. Reinstalling them is easy, just do sudo apt-get install packagename. Don't forget to reboot or reload after installing/uninstalling an indicator.

There was no bad news :)

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    Actually indicator-printers refers to another one that shows up when there's a print job, but the one I want to remove is for the application hplip. So the bad news... since it is an external application, they are all called libappindicator and libindicator with different numbers. Would you know of a way to identify which one it is, or should I remove each one until I hit the one?
    – Diego-MX
    Commented Feb 12, 2014 at 1:24

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