Ubuntu
gnome-settings-daemon package

  1. Zesty (17.04)
  2. Bug #1682167
  3. Comment #4

Comment 4 for bug 1682167

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kg (box-dev) wrote :

I can confirm this still happens with gnome-shell 3.24.1-0ubuntu1.

It appears that you can stop this from happening by blocking gnome-color-panel in /etc/geoclue/geoclue.conf:

[gnome-color-panel]
allowed=false
system=true
users=

Just to add some confusion, it appears that GDM sometimes starts using geoclue which then makes then location icon appear in the user's desktop once logged in. But that is presumably something that should be logged seperately.