So, let’s say that you have absolutely no use for the little envelope that is residing next to your volume applet since you installed Lucid Lynx. It is a very useful little guy if you use Evolution, or if you install something like gmail notifier to check your web mail. If not, then here’s how you can remove it.
Open a terminal and enter this command:
sudo apt-get remove indicator-messages
That’s it, once you restart your machine, the envelope will be gone. You can also restart the panel without restarting your machine.
ALT + F2 to bring up a Run dialog box. Then enter killall gnome-panel. You’ll see all of your panels, or taskbars, disappear, and then reappear in a few seconds.
If I want replace evolution to thunderbird in indicator? when I do this?
@ Bruno – Here is a little project that may do just what you’re asking about. I’m not a Thunderbird user myself, and have not tried this, but I hope it helps!
Yes but it takes the volume and battery indicators with it! Why do people keep posting this silly solution?
Actually, I still have my volume indicator after doing this. I can’t speak to the battery indicator, as I haven’t tried this on a notebook. I’ve done this to two of my machines, both running 10.04, one 64 bit, and one 32, and on both I still have my volume indicator.
This is something that should be addressed in future releases. A graphical way to configure what shows up in the indicator area. If I don’t want the mail icon, I should be able to easily get rid of it without having to ditch volume and battery (on notebooks) as well.