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Is it possible to display country flags in the keyboard layout indicator on Ubuntu 17.04 with Unity?

yvs2014
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I have a solution for the current versions of Ubuntu and Unity, it took me some time to figure out.

Install gxkb: an application which adds a flag indicator to the top panel:

sudo apt-get install gxkb

Run the installed program, it should display the current language indicator at the top panel. The "&" at the end ensures that the program will not exit upon closing the terminal:

gxkb &

Then, hide the old indicator like this: go to System settings -> Text Entry and untick Show current input source in the menu bar.

To ensure that gxkb launches at the startup, run the following:

 gnome-session-properties

Click on Add. In the field Name:, type any name and in the field Command:, type gxkb.

You can override the default flags with your custom flags, they should be of the size 24 x 24 px in png format, you can download some nice flags here: https://www.whoishostingthis.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/Flags-Icon-Set.zip. Place the custom flags which you want to use into ~/.local/share/gxkb/flags/. Name each flag as <country code>.png, e.g. us.png, ru.png.

Mišo Lašan
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