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How to get rid of the keyboard layout menu without getting rid of keyboard layout

rated 0 times [ 0] [ 0] / answers: 1 / hits: 1670 / 2 Years ago, sat, september 10, 2022, 4:43:54

I have a UK keyboard. It works. But in the top right corner of my Gnome Shell screen I have a little "en1⌄" menu which offers me a choice of UK or US keyboards.

As I have no plans to move across the ocean, being constantly offered a foreign keyboard layout is not useful; it is screen junk.

So I went to Keyboard Layouts and removed the US layout, leaving just the UK one. The menu disappeared - great...but turns out that now it thought my keyboard had gone all American - press # and I'd get !

Enable the US keyboard, and it goes UK again(!).

It's only annoying, but wondering if anyone can fix?

EDIT: Screenshots added:

Gnome's System Settings:
Gnome System Settings

Region & Language

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answered 2 Years ago deringach · Accepted Answer

The answer is that you cannot do this at the moment, due to known bugs.

I reported this bug and it's been merged as a symptom of a bigger one:

There is a monster bug about keyboard layouts in launchpad. Still basically
unsolved; the interactions between gnome-control-center, input methods, KBD
options and co& are a real nightmare.

The bug title is just one of the symptoms. The behavior reported here was
commented somewhere... at least I think.

See
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-settings-daemon/+bug/1218322

So while you can remove it, doing so does not fix the problem. Also, as the keyboard layout gets reset to US whenever Gnome Shell crashes and you can only remedy this by changing the layout back to US (the indicator does not register the reset) and then back to UK again, removing the indicator would not be convenient.

I thought there might be a setting somewhere, which is why I asked the question, but it turns out it's a bug.