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How to remove envelope from Indicator applet?

Posted: June 8th, 2010 | Author: | Filed under: Ubuntu | Tags: | 2 Comments »

In Ubuntu 10.04 Indicator applet replaced separate applets in taskbar (e.g. sound applet, battery applet, network applet). Its main purpose was to unify messages being shown to user.

Personally, I do not like this solution. First of all I can not switch back to previously used applets. There is also problem with space between icons in applet. For example distance between other elements in my taskbar (e.g. clock and Pidgin icon) is less than between indicator applet icons (which looks strange on my desktop). Moreover I use only web interface to my Gmail account so I don’t need envelope icon for Evolution/Thunderbird events. Having unused icon in taskbar is irritating, but I managed to remove it.

I executed following command:

sudo aptitude purge indicator-me indicator-messages gwibber

Then I removed Indicator applet from by taskbar and then added it once again.

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2 Comments on “How to remove envelope from Indicator applet?”

  1. 1unr3a1 said at 07:15 on August 15th, 2010:

    Recently updated my netbook to 10.04 and the envelope was really bothering me. Thank you for this solution.

  2. 2lukas said at 14:03 on August 17th, 2010:

    @unr3a1: thanks for your comment. Glad to hear that post was helpful.

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