Remove orphan-language-icon from menu bar

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I am using 16.04, somehow I manage to leave an orphan-language-icon on my menu bar (see high-lighted item in menu bar). I could't remove it in system settings/language support. Does anyone know if this item can be removed by editing a config file? Or can be changed from command line? screen shot

And by entering gsettings get org.gnome.desktop.input-sources sources, I got [('ibus', 'bopomofo'), ('xkb', 'us'), ('ibus', 'libbopomofo')]. First one seems to be the orphan.

Well, I still want to keep the other two. I just want to remove the orphan one. — Andrew, Aug 30 '17 at 15:14
Aha, finally I understand what you are asking about. :) It may be an orphan gsettings value. Can you please run the command gsettings get org.gnome.desktop.input-sources sources and let us know what it outputs by editing your question. — Gunnar Hjalmarsson, Aug 30 '17 at 19:23
Ah, thank you for your patience and input. So I typed in the command you mentioned and find out which one is the orphan, and then do a 'set' to remove the orphan, now I am happy to report that orphan input method no longer appears! Your help is much appreciated. — Andrew, Aug 31 '17 at 01:41
Good. It would be great if you could post that solution as an answer too. — Gunnar Hjalmarsson, Aug 31 '17 at 12:14

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Sep 01 '17 at 18:42

So with Gunnar's suggestion, I realize I can use following command to reset keyboard input setting.

gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.input-sources sources "[('xkb', 'us'), ('ibus', 'libbopomofo')]"

where string (within double-quote) are the input methods I want to keep.

Again, thanks Gunnar.

Remove orphan-language-icon from menu bar

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