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Wednesday, September 14, 2011

Ubuntu Unity > remove Rhythmbox from the sound menu

Problem

Ubuntu 'Natty' 11.04
There's no (obvious) way to remove rhythmbox from the sound menu in unity.

Solution

According to the documents on the ubuntu wiki, rhythmbox must be removed by using gsettings. Execute the following in your console:

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

See: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/SoundMenu#Music_player_integration

2 comments:

  1. There is an error in the command listed above. Or perhaps the name was changed since this post was originally made. Otherwise, this fix works great!!!

    I tried the command listed above and got an error message that said "no such schema". Then I searched the directory of gsettings schemas and found that it was "indicator", not "indicators" with an 's'.

    I changed the command to:

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

    and everything worked fine! Thanks, Nicholas.

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  2. Thanks Snokimesa, this should help other people! I'll update the post.
    (I can't confirm atm, I'm away on holidays!)
    Regards,
    Nick

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