Tips for removing the player from the Ubuntu sound menu

The sound menu in Ubuntu system is unique. The sound of all applications can be adjusted together, but sometimes the player is too much trouble. The following small series will introduce you to the Ubuntu sound menu to delete music. Let's learn together.

Although it looks very easy, but currently there is a problem with this little app: Many players piled together, like as a music center. Maybe you need it, but all the media players you install are crowded here, which makes people look very tired and disgusted.

I am going to bet, when you read this, you must find the screenshot above to be familiar! Don't worry, dconf-editor can fix it.

Part 1: Basics

The fastest and easiest way to remove a player from the sound menu is to uninstall the associated application. But this is an extreme way, I mean you may want to keep the application, but you don't need it to be integrated into the menu.

Just delete the player but keep the application we need, we use a seemingly surprising tool called "dconf-editor”.

You may have already installed it. If it is not installed, then you can find it from the Ubuntu Software Center.

Once installed, find Unity Dash and open it. Don't panic when you open it; you didn't go to 2002, it really is this ancient look.

Using the right menu bar, you will need to navigate from the navigation panel to com 》 canonical 》 indicator ” sound. The panel below will appear.

Double-click on & ldquo; interested-media-players & rdquo; next to the closing parenthesis, and you want to delete to remove the sound from the menu out of players, but need to retain the square brackets, and do not delete any need A comma or single quote that is reserved.

For example, I removed these

‘rhythmbox.desktop’, ‘pithos.desktop’, ‘clementine.desktop’,

good left line as follows:

[& lsquo; tomahawk.desktop & rsquo;]

now, when I turn on the sound menu, I only see Tomahawk:

Part 2: Blacklist

Wait! You can't close dconf-editor yet. Although the above steps seem to handle things neatly, some players reload to the sound menu as soon as they are opened. To avoid repeating this process, add them to the blacklisted-media-player.

Remember that every player in parentheses separates multiple entries with a comma. They must also be in square brackets, so be sure to check them carefully before exiting.

The final results are as follows:

The above method is Ubuntu sound menu to delete player introduced, using this method just removes the sound operation of the player, and do not remove these software.