[Live-demo] help with keyboard language changer and autologin ?

[Jorge Gaspar Sanz Salinas]

El 18/08/11 09:57, Hamish escribió:
> our user help mentions:
> 
>> "To change the language, log out (Applications menu) and
>> along the bottom of the login screen is the language menu. 
>> Once you log back in (the password if you need it is
>> "user"), there is a flag icon on the top menu bar that lets
>> you pick the keyboard layout. You can also set it via the
>> menus with Applications > System > Language Support."
> 
> except in this version of xubuntu there is no flag icon on
> the upper taskbar. Can anyone figure out how to (manually) re-
> enable that tool?
> 

Installing the xfce4-xkb-plugin, it's not installed by default on 11.04

> 
> also anyone have an idea how to get gdm into kiosk-mode & respawn
> the auto-login after a user logs out? currently that only works
> the first time the system boots.
> 

No idea, sorry :-(


> 
> 
> and finally there is an envelope icon on the task bar which
> belongs to the Indicator applet. AFAICT from a fresh xUbuntu
> CD that's there leave you messages, if we hadn't already
> removed it the Pidgin IM service would have a notification
> there trying to get you to sign up for an account. I'd like
> to keep the volume and [wireless] network indicators there,
> but how to get rid of the notification envelope? real estate
> on the taskbar is very valuable in the 11.04 desktop.
> 
> 

Removing indicator-messages package

Best

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