Unity – How to Remove Keyboard Indicator in Ubuntu

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/desktop/gnome/peripherals/keyboard/general/disable_indicator in gconf is set to yes

Additionally I restarted, but it's still there.

Maybe there is some setting buried in CCSM?

here is screenshot of what I'm talking about if it's not clear:

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I want to remove it if possible

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To completely remove the keyboard indicator we need to change one byte in the file

11.04 and before

/usr/lib/gnome-settings-daemon-2.0/libkeyboard.so

11.10 and after

/usr/lib/gnome-settings-daemon-2.0/libkeyboard.so

(make backup libkeyboard.so)

open file with root privileges through any hex editor (i use Bless)

and search for the byte signature FF 83 F8 01 0F

FF 83 F8 01 0F = if (g_slist_length (current_kbd_config.layouts_variants) > 1)

and change 01 to 02

FF 83 F8 02 0F

save file

FF 83 F8 02 0F = if (g_slist_length (current_kbd_config.layouts_variants) > 2)

if you have less than 3 keyboard layouts icon will be not shown

after this work need to reload gnome-settings-daemon

you can use reboot for this.

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Note: Try steps 4/5 first, it may be fixed with 1st hit.

Below the extended instruction to debug the problem with the indicator.

Check if indicator-power-service is running:
```
ps ax | grep indicator-power
```
If it's running, try reset its settings then restart it:
```
dconf reset -f /com/canonical/indicator/power/
pkill -f indicator-power-service
```
No success, locate it then try it from terminal (looking for any errors in output):
```
sudo updatedb; locate -r indicator-power-service$
```
My system is 64bit, So:
```
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/indicator-power/indicator-power-service
```
If it works with command, then some thing wrong with its autostart.

As it was checked, it isn't running on start up. Verify the existence of:

/usr/share/upstart/sessions/indicator-power.conf

description "Indicator Power Backend"

# Want to move to indicator-services-[start|end], but that's not all
# there yet.  Use the signals that exist today for now.

start on indicators-loaded or indicator-services-start
stop on desktop-end or indicator-services-end

respawn

exec /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/indicator-power/indicator-power-service

/etc/xdg/autostart/indicator-power.desktop

[Desktop Entry]
Type=Application
Name=Indicator Power
Exec=/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/indicator-power/indicator-power-service
NotShowIn=Unity;
NoDisplay=true
StartupNotify=false
Terminal=false

This works for me with a fresh Ubuntu 14.04, Modifing indicator-power.desktop for autostart conditions similar to the other indicators. (Submitted bug report lp#1330302)

sudo nano /etc/xdg/autostart/indicator-power.desktop

Remove:
```
NotShowIn=Unity;
```
Replace it with:
```
OnlyShowIn=Unity;XFCE;GNOME;
AutostartCondition=GNOME3 unless-session gnome
```
Logout/Login

Well if it didn't work:

Try purge it then reinstall it:

sudo apt-get remove --purge indicator-power
sudo apt-get install indicator-power

Reboot, Check again

No success, as workaround you can run it this way (you may close terminal after this):
```
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/indicator-power/indicator-power-service & disown $!
```
& run it in background
disown $! command to detach a process for current terminal, $! variable that hold PID of last process run in background

Or better if add it to user startup applications, see How do I start applications automatically on login?

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