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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.

Diego-MX
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  • Also look at this: http://askubuntu.com/questions/74986/how-to-hide-items-in-unitys-top-panel – Parto Feb 11 '14 at 23:38

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Start by clicking on it and choose Settings.

Then check Always Hide and you're done.

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Cornelius
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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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MrVaykadji
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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 Feb 12 '14 at 01:24