Is it possible to display country flags in the keyboard layout indicator on Ubuntu 17.04 with Unity?
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Try proberties on the keyboard layout indicator. Change the layout from tekst to image! This works on most of the other windows managers - so see if it works on Unity too! – Ken Mollerup Jul 13 '17 at 09:47
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Thanks for your suggestion, but it doesn't work this way. – yvs2014 Jul 25 '17 at 07:12
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1Possible duplicate of Display current layout (language code/country flag) in keyboard indicator – N0rbert Jul 25 '18 at 23:13
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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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