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Asked: 2011-12-18 05:18:46 +0800 CST

Is it possible to remove 'Contacts' from Gnome Shell?

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Whenever I search for a program in Gnome Shell's search panel, some contacts from Pidgin will appear. E.g. when I search for Chromium, by typing chr, Chris Andersen will appear. I don't want this to happen. Is it possible to disable this function?

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4 Answers

  1. Go to: Settings | Search | Contacts | OFF

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  2. Best Answer

    I was curious about this myself, greping around in /usr/share/gnome-shell/js/ui I found reference to contactDisplay in overview.js. You should be able to comment out the two lines: 

    const ContactDisplay = imports.ui.contactDisplay;
this.addSearchProvider(new ContactDisplay.ContactSearchProvider());

    and that will take care of it. Just tested it, and nothing broke immediately (your results may vary). I wont make any assumptions of your skill set so to comment these lines

    Alt+F2 gksu gedit /usr/share/gnome-shell/js/ui/overview.js find the two lines listed and place // (comment markers) in front of them, save, and Contacts are gone from search results.

    The search panel you refer to is called the overview. That may help with future questions.

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  3. At the time of writing (using Gnome Shell 3.10.4) the contacts search provider (gnome-contacts-search-provider) is added by the gnome-contacts package:

    > locate gnome-contacts-search-provider
/usr/share/gnome-shell/search-providers/gnome-contacts-search-provider.ini

> apt-file search /usr/share/gnome-shell/search-providers/gnome-contacts-search-provider.ini
gnome-contacts: /usr/share/gnome-shell/search-providers/gnome-contacts-search-provider.ini

    If you don't use the Contacts app you can remove it and the search provider with it.

    sudo apt-get purge gnome-contacts
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  4. It is by default search handling technique in gnome , better way is to use synapse for search, it is very light and very fast, plus it provides filters to search. it will solve your problem,

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