How to disable 3rd party app tray icons/indicators in Ubuntu 18.10?
Would love to disable 3rd party app tray icons in Ubuntu 18.10, cause on HiDPi screen they look ugly - 
Heard that removing gnome-shell-extension-appindicator might take care of it, but it also wants to remove ubuntu-desktop* packages with it, so I wont even try it.
Tried also an extension called https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/351/icon-hider/ but it does not work as expected. It did hide the pointed app tray icon, but when you run the app again, another tray icon entry was created. I wont waste my time hiding new tray icons every time I launch an app.
I also don't want to install gnome vanilla. There must be a file/setting in the system somewhere that controls app indicators.
So any fix making app indicators disappear will be highly appreciated.
My system:
OS: Ubuntu 18.10 x86_64
Kernel: 4.18.0-15-generic
Shell: bash 4.4.19
Resolution: 3840x2160
DE: GNOME 3.30.1
WM: GNOME Shell
WM Theme: Adwaita
Theme: Yaru [GTK2/3]
Icons: Yaru [GTK2/3]
Terminal: gnome-terminal
CPU: Intel i7-6700K (8) @ 4.300GHz
GPU: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080
Memory: 2790MiB / 32101MiB
indicator gnome-shell system-tray
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Would love to disable 3rd party app tray icons in Ubuntu 18.10, cause on HiDPi screen they look ugly -
Heard that removing gnome-shell-extension-appindicator might take care of it, but it also wants to remove ubuntu-desktop* packages with it, so I wont even try it.
Tried also an extension called https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/351/icon-hider/ but it does not work as expected. It did hide the pointed app tray icon, but when you run the app again, another tray icon entry was created. I wont waste my time hiding new tray icons every time I launch an app.
I also don't want to install gnome vanilla. There must be a file/setting in the system somewhere that controls app indicators.
So any fix making app indicators disappear will be highly appreciated.
My system:
OS: Ubuntu 18.10 x86_64
Kernel: 4.18.0-15-generic
Shell: bash 4.4.19
Resolution: 3840x2160
DE: GNOME 3.30.1
WM: GNOME Shell
WM Theme: Adwaita
Theme: Yaru [GTK2/3]
Icons: Yaru [GTK2/3]
Terminal: gnome-terminal
CPU: Intel i7-6700K (8) @ 4.300GHz
GPU: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080
Memory: 2790MiB / 32101MiB
indicator gnome-shell system-tray
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Would love to disable 3rd party app tray icons in Ubuntu 18.10, cause on HiDPi screen they look ugly -
Heard that removing gnome-shell-extension-appindicator might take care of it, but it also wants to remove ubuntu-desktop* packages with it, so I wont even try it.
Tried also an extension called https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/351/icon-hider/ but it does not work as expected. It did hide the pointed app tray icon, but when you run the app again, another tray icon entry was created. I wont waste my time hiding new tray icons every time I launch an app.
I also don't want to install gnome vanilla. There must be a file/setting in the system somewhere that controls app indicators.
So any fix making app indicators disappear will be highly appreciated.
My system:
OS: Ubuntu 18.10 x86_64
Kernel: 4.18.0-15-generic
Shell: bash 4.4.19
Resolution: 3840x2160
DE: GNOME 3.30.1
WM: GNOME Shell
WM Theme: Adwaita
Theme: Yaru [GTK2/3]
Icons: Yaru [GTK2/3]
Terminal: gnome-terminal
CPU: Intel i7-6700K (8) @ 4.300GHz
GPU: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080
Memory: 2790MiB / 32101MiB
indicator gnome-shell system-tray
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Would love to disable 3rd party app tray icons in Ubuntu 18.10, cause on HiDPi screen they look ugly -
Heard that removing gnome-shell-extension-appindicator might take care of it, but it also wants to remove ubuntu-desktop* packages with it, so I wont even try it.
Tried also an extension called https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/351/icon-hider/ but it does not work as expected. It did hide the pointed app tray icon, but when you run the app again, another tray icon entry was created. I wont waste my time hiding new tray icons every time I launch an app.
I also don't want to install gnome vanilla. There must be a file/setting in the system somewhere that controls app indicators.
So any fix making app indicators disappear will be highly appreciated.
My system:
OS: Ubuntu 18.10 x86_64
Kernel: 4.18.0-15-generic
Shell: bash 4.4.19
Resolution: 3840x2160
DE: GNOME 3.30.1
WM: GNOME Shell
WM Theme: Adwaita
Theme: Yaru [GTK2/3]
Icons: Yaru [GTK2/3]
Terminal: gnome-terminal
CPU: Intel i7-6700K (8) @ 4.300GHz
GPU: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080
Memory: 2790MiB / 32101MiB
indicator gnome-shell system-tray
indicator gnome-shell system-tray
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