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josh4trunks

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Registered: 2014-03-20

Posts: 3

Gnome 3 Issues - Location Icon & Audio Switching

Hi, I have been using Gnome 3 + Arch now for several months and I couldn't love it more as a desktop OS. I had a few annoyances I thought I'd ask about to see if anyone has a resolution. Thanks!

1) Location Icon (See link) -  I don't know what this is and how to remove it?
https://www.jruehlig.com/owncloud/publi … 91d6703942

2) Brightness Bar - I just noticed this. I don't know why this is showing up on my desktop where I can't control brightness with software.

2) Audio Switching - I have a Xonar ST, disabled my onboard audio in my UEFI. Is there a quick way to switch between my Headphones and Speaker output? I tried the gnome audio-output-switcher but it sees my soundcard as single device (even though there are 4 audio outputs on it)
https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/ … -switcher/

Michael Catanzaro

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Registered: 2012-11-04

Posts: 50

Re: Gnome 3 Issues - Location Icon & Audio Switching

Hi, I have been using Gnome 3 + Arch now for several months and I couldn't love it more as a desktop OS. I had a few annoyances I thought I'd ask about to see if anyone has a resolution. Thanks!

1) Location Icon (See link) -  I don't know what this is and how to remove it?
https://www.jruehlig.com/owncloud/publi … 91d6703942

It means an app on your computer is using geoclue to determine your physical location (based on IP address, nearby wi-fi networks if you have wi-fi, and GPS if you have it). You can expect this to happen when you open Maps, for example. To prevent apps from doing this, click disable (it's inside your red circle!).  When no apps are accessing your location, the icon will go away from the top bar.

Because of subpar design, there is no way to figure out which app it is, but there are plans to fix that.

2) Brightness Bar - I just noticed this. I don't know why this is showing up on my desktop where I can't control brightness with software.

This is https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=726798

2) Audio Switching

I don't know

josh4trunks

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Registered: 2014-03-20

Posts: 3

Re: Gnome 3 Issues - Location Icon & Audio Switching

Thanks Michael!
I'm fine with the GPS icon if it has a purpose. I'll wait for the brightness bug to be fixed. And I might look into modifying a gnome extension to run whatever command I need to switch audio.