dconf keys for hiding names of users in unity's top panel session indicator are gone

[Flo Ege]

In Ubuntu 13.10's Unity Panel (the top panel, not the launcher), the session indicator (top right corner) shows the names of previously logged in users.

This allows switching users, but for privacy reasons I would like to be able to hide those user names, as a lot of people use machines in our computer pool. It seems that in older versions of Unity there was a dedicated 'user-indicator' in the panel for that purpose, which could be configured via dconf.

Old posts on AskUbuntu show how to hide those names, either via dconf settings or by using Ubuntu Tweak.

Related dconf keys, that were referred to in different posts, are:

  * apps > indicator-session > user-show-menu
  * com > canonical > indicator > session > user-show-menu

Unfortunately, all these keys don't exist anymore. The user indicator seems to have been merged into the session indicator. The graphical tool Ubuntu Tweak doesn't have the config settings any more either.

Is there any way to hide the switch user part of the session indicator? If not, I think the possibility to configure this behavior should be added again.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.