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. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to gnome-settings-daemon in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1682167 Title: location services says it is in use even though it is disabled and nothing is using it Status in gnome-settings-daemon package in Ubuntu: Incomplete Bug description: Using Ubuntu-Gnome 17.04. location services says it is in use even though it is disabled and nothing is using it. Gnome-maps and gnome-weather are not running. Looks like it might be related to this Gnome bug: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=778691 As it is right now, the location services indicator/icon perpetually shows in the top panel even though nothing is using location services. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-settings-daemon/+bug/1682167/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
