<div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Dec 16, 2010 at 5:58 PM, R Kimber <<a href="mailto:richardkimber@btinternet.com">richardkimber@btinternet.com</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;"> On Thu, 16 Dec 2010 09:53:47 -0500 David Curtis wrote: > I could be wrong but a cursory glance at the 'indicator-session' applet > makes me think this is what you require. It also seems to me that the > default applet that you are unhappy with is actually called 'indicator-me' Thanks, but this is baffling. I don't see an applet called 'indicator-me', and doing a search in the 'add to panel' window doesn't locate it, although Synaptic tells me that it's installed. In the 'add to panel' window I just have 'indicator applet' and 'indicator applet session'. There is a separate 'logout' applet but that only switches user or logs out. I think the 'indicator-session' applet is the same as the one I'm referring to as 'indicator applet session', and installing this gives a switch with the options I require, but it also installs the superfluous stuff about chat accounts plus the login name, and there doesn't seem to be a configuration option to remove the latter. </blockquote><div> Unfortunately on re-boot the chat status portion has re-appeared, my mistake. Adding a new 'indicator-session' while there is one already in use and identified with the user will just add a new button icon without the chat status portion, only to have the chat status portion re-appear on logout/login or re-boot. Oops, back to square-one. </div></div>