Questions[gnome-maps](ubuntu)

How do I disable the location bubble in gnome-maps? I'm using i3 and don't have most of the gnome-settings packages installed, but it seems like even if you disable location services in gnome, the blue bubble still appears.

I've tried sudo sed -i s/true/false/g /etc/geoclue/geoclue.conf so that gnome-maps doesn't have access to geoclue, but geoclue still starts up and reports a location. I've even tried chmod 000 /usr/libexec/geoclue with killall -9 /usr/libexec/geoclue and the location still appears.

Is there a gconf setting that lets me disable location entirely in gnome-maps? I'm on a desktop machine in my apartment. It's not going to move. I really don't need a dot to tell me where I am.

I have location services enabled, however, when I use an app that requires location access such as gnome-maps or Firefox (with allowed permissions for google maps) it doesn't work. Google maps shows that there was an error while determining location and Gnome Maps shows a completely off location. Also the settings page shows no apps have requested location services.

Image of the settings page

How do I fix this?

Edit: I am using Ubuntu 20.04.1 LTS and I'm not sure when this issue has started occurring. I did not change anything in my system that would affect this.

I use Ubuntu 20.04 and I am working on a web app that requires geolocation, so I need to get my current location from the web browser. I noticed that I could not get my position in Firefox using the JS geolocation api. Location services in the Settings->Privacy menu are enabled but I can see no app using them in the list below the on-off button. I have tried the following to narrow down the possible causes:

• Installed chromium. No result
• Checked https://www.where-am-i.net/ on both browsers to make sure that it was not an HTTPS issue. No result
• Installed Gnome Maps. Location is shown correctly
• Tried Firefox or Chrome on Windows on the same machine. Location is shown correctly

Any ideas on how to solve this?

Is there some Ubuntu program to access or display offline Windows Maps????

I installed gnome maps (apt install gnome-maps) on Xubuntu 16.04. It is a great tool and running fine. The only problem is that I do not understand how to use the search function. When I enter a place in the search bar, I get a suggestion list with the correct city and country etc, but whatever I select or type nothing happens.

I would expect when I enter Paris,France and select it from the offered List, to tool centers Paris and put a cursor on it. I can not figure out how to do that. What am I missing?