{"id":13544,"date":"2010-11-08T15:36:48","date_gmt":"2010-11-08T13:36:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/?p=13544"},"modified":"2010-11-08T15:36:48","modified_gmt":"2010-11-08T13:36:48","slug":"adding-flags-to-gnome-keyboard-layout-switch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2010\/11\/08\/adding-flags-to-gnome-keyboard-layout-switch\/","title":{"rendered":"Adding flags to Gnome keyboard layout switch"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

One of the little things that has been bugging me for a few years now is the Gnome keyboard layout switch. \u00a0I am using two layouts – English and Russian – and instead of having two nice flags, like in KDE, I had to live with ‘USA’ and ‘RUS’ letters in my task bar. \u00a0Not that big of a problem, but annoying. \u00a0Icons are much easier and faster to understand than text. \u00a0And all the other things in my task bar are graphical, so the text stands out too much.<\/p>\n

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Today I finally decided to do something about. \u00a0Thanks to this forum<\/a> post I had a solution in hand which almost worked. \u00a0The steps were:<\/p>\n

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  1. Download en.png<\/em> and ru.png<\/em> icons into ~\/.icons\/flags\/<\/em> folder.<\/li>\n
  2. Run gconf-editor<\/em>.<\/li>\n
  3. Change the value of \/desktop\/gnome\/peripherals\/keyboard\/indicator\/showFlags<\/em> to true<\/em>.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    The only thing that went wrong for me were the actual images. \u00a0Gnome scaled them to 24×24 pixels and they looked rater ugly. \u00a0So I created my own icons using Gimp. \u00a0I created a new image 24×24 pixels with transparent background and then dropped in the center of it the flag icon that I got from the FamFamFam icon set<\/a>. \u00a0Saved the results back into the ~\/.icons\/flags\/<\/em> folder and vuala!<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\n

    One of the little things that has been bugging me for a few years now is the Gnome keyboard layout switch. \u00a0I am using two layouts – English and Russian – and instead of having two nice flags, like in KDE, I had to live with ‘USA’ and ‘RUS’ letters in my task bar. \u00a0Not … Continue reading Adding flags to Gnome keyboard layout switch<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1,6,62],"tags":[65,2351,292,68,74,1158],"keyring_services":[],"class_list":["post-13544","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-linux","category-technology","tag-desktop","tag-fedora-linux","tag-gnome","tag-icons","tag-tips","tag-user-interfaces"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":14946,"url":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2011\/05\/25\/fedora-15-gnome3-here-we-go-again\/","url_meta":{"origin":13544,"position":0},"title":"Fedora 15 : Gnome3, here we go again","author":"Leonid Mamchenkov","date":"May 25, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"As you probably know, Fedora 15 was released yesterday. \u00a0I've been waiting for this release with a big worry in my heart. \u00a0While I did, of course, want to have a look at the new service manager systemd and enjoy the power management improvements, I had my doubts about Gnome3.\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "All"","block_context":{"text":"All","link":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/category\/general\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":14952,"url":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2011\/05\/25\/xfce4-saves-the-day\/","url_meta":{"origin":13544,"position":1},"title":"Xfce4 saves the day","author":"Leonid Mamchenkov","date":"May 25, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"After almost a full day of tweaking configurations and swearing at both Gnome3 and KDE4, I decided to follow my brother's advice - 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