Show flags in gnome keyboard indicator

17 December 2009 at 6:15 PM | Posted in Gnome | 2 Comments
Tags: gnome panel, tips

One of the things that i dont like of Gnome Desktop is the keyboard indicator applet that not show country flags like KDE desktop. Searching in San Google i found a solution to fix it, by default gnome support flags but most distributions dont have this feature enabled, to enable it follow this steps:

Press ALT+F2 and it open the Execute App Dialog. Type gconf-editor and press Enter.
Now, go to Desktop>Gnome>Peripherals>Keyboard>Indicator and check the box on the right side that says “showFlags”. (If you have an older gnome desktop and u dont find it, try: Apps->gswitchit->Applet->showFlags).
Download the flags of languages that you use(You can download SVG files from Wikipedia searching the country name). Scale it to 64×43 size and move to /usr/share/pixmaps Directory with name XX.png, where XX is the iso country name not the language name, for example i use es.png with cuban flag and my language is Spanish(Spain).
Now restart your session and you will see the flags in your panel:

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Hi,
I just found this simple guide of yours and followed it.
It worked perfectly! Thanks a lot!
I think the size of the images may depend on the theme you’re using, though, BTW. I made mine the size you instructed, and they’re vertically stretched. No biggy.

Comment by Ethan— 25 June 2010 #

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Comment by codeadict— 29 June 2010 #

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