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Asked: 2010-11-13 06:58:42 +0800 CST

How do I remove players I don't use from the sound indicator?

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how to remove installed Xnoise, rhytmbox on my sound indicator? I am not using these 2 music player anymore I want to remove it

indicator indicator-sound

4 Answers

  1. Rather than blacklist the entry, it can be removed from the list.

    Try the following:

    kch:~$ gsettings get com.canonical.indicator.sound interested-media-players
['banshee', 'rhythmbox']

    This shows I have two entries. To remove one, use the set option:

    kch:~$ gsettings set com.canonical.indicator.sound interested-media-players "['rhythmbox']"

    Note the quotes around the value to be inserted.

    Now restart or logout, and the entry should be gone from your sound menu.

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  2. Best Answer

    Currently, the only way to do this is to edit the seendb txt file that the menu uses to keep track of interested players.

    Open terminal and type:

    gedit ~/.cache/indicators/sound/familiar-players-db.keyfile

    This will launch the familiar text editor where you will see something like 

    DesktopFiles=/usr/share/applications/banshee-1.desktop;/usr/share/applications/rhythmbox.desktop;

    Remove the rhythmbox and xnoise entries

    and leave it looking something like

    [Seen Database]
DesktopFiles=/usr/share/applications/banshee-1.desktop;

    Save, then reload indicator-applet on the panel.

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  3. 12.04

    If you wish to hide or 'blacklist' a media player from the sound indicator, you will first need to make sure if the sound indicator settings have media players already blacklisted:

    gsettings get com.canonical.indicator.sound blacklisted-media-players

    If no other players have been blacklisted, you will not have to worry about adding them to the command below. If you do have other media players, you will need to copy those players into the below command and add any other players you want to backlist.

    gsettings set com.canonical.indicator.sound blacklisted-media-players "['<mediaplayer>','<mediaplayer']"

    Here is an example of how to blacklist spotify from the sound indicator:

    gsettings get com.canonical.indicator.sound blacklisted-media-players
['']

gsettings set com.canonical.indicator.sound blacklisted-media-players "['spotify']"

gsettings get com.canonical.indicator.sound blacklisted-media-players
['spotify']

    Hope this helps.

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  4. While the other answer didnt work for me with 11.04 Natty Narwhal I looked for another way. For example to remove rhythmbox from the sound-menue the following command in terminal worked:

    gsettings set com.canonical.indicator.sound blacklisted-media-players "['rhythmbox']"
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