Comment 53 for bug 620331

I also keep having this same problem over and over. After Oneiric new install, the solution from Karl on #41 did not work this time. I also use ibus for Japanese Language input which has the same keyboard icon, so I had 2 identical keyboard icons.

 I looked for another fix and I found it on: http://www.webupd8.org/2011/05/how-to-remove-keyboard-indicator-icon.html It looks like a quick finx. The result is that instead of having a keyboard icon with a name, I have only have two letters: "jp" for Japanese and "es" for spanish. It looks nice and narrow and clean. So I hope it helps to find a final solution to the bug in future releases.