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allows you to select a keyboard layout, if more than one keyboard layout is chosen. The \menu{keyboard indicator} menu contains the following menu items: Character Map, Keyboard Layout Chart, and Text Entry Settings.

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[Network indicator \textup{(\indicatoricon{network})}] manages network connections, allowing you to connect quickly and easily to a wired or wireless network.

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[Messaging indicator \textup{(\indicatoricon{messages})}] incorporates your social applications. From here, among others, you can access instant messenger and email clients.

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[Sound indicator \textup{(\indicatoricon{audio})}] provides an easy way to adjust the sound volume as well as access your music player and sound settings.

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[Clock] displays the current time and provides a link to your calendar and time and date settings.

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[Session indicator \textup{(\indicatoricon{session})}] is a link to the system settings, Ubuntu Help, and session options (like locking your computer, user/guest session, logging out of a session, restarting the computer, or shutting down completely).

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The indicators of the menu bar.

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Every application has a menuing system where different actions can be executed in an application (like \menu{File}, \menu{Edit}, \menu{View}, etc.); the menuing system for an application is appropriately called the \menu{application menu}. By default in \application{Unity}, the application menu isn't on the title bar of the application as is commonly the case in other \acronym{GUI} environments. \marginnote{Note that some older applications may still display their menu within the application window.} Instead, it is located to the left area of the menu bar. To show an application's menu, just move your mouse to the desktop's menu bar (at the top of the screen). While your mouse is positioned here, the active application's menu options will appear in the desktop's menu bar, allowing you to use the application's menuing options. When clicking on the desktop, the desktop's menu bar reappears. This capability in \application{Unity} to display the application's menu only when needed is especially beneficial for netbook and laptop users with limited viewable screen space. Apple uses a similar approach in \acronym{OS~X} where all application menus appear on a bar at the top of the screen. It differs, however, in that the menus in Ubuntu appear only when the mouse is over the desktop's menu bar.

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Note that Unity now has locally integrated menus. Locally integrated menus are displayed in the title bar of unmaximized windows, instead of the top panel. As the default Unity menu, locally integrated menus are displayed on mouse over and there's no option to make the menus permanently visible. Locally integrated menus can be enabled via \menu{Session Indicator \then System Settings \then Appearance \then Behavior \then Show the menus for a window \then in the window's title bar}.

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The Launcher