Remove the Accessibility menu in Gnome 3
April 29th, 2011 by robg
By default gnome-shell has an accessibility menu visible in the shell. I get that this is sensible by default. But I don’t need it and it bothers me that I can’t remove it.
User fpmurphy over at fedoraforum has posted a shell extension that removes the offending icon.
I have created a tarball of the extension. Download it here and extract it to “~/.local/share/gnome-shell/extensions”
$ cd ~/.local/share/gnome-shell/extensions
$ unzip gnome-shell-extensions-noa11y.zip
Then restart the shell. Hit “Alt+f2″, and type “r”.
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May 1st, 2011 at 10:43 am
Thank you. Not only is that menu of no use to me, it is also annoying. I tried to make an extension for it myself, but couldn’t find what setting to use.
May 12th, 2011 at 7:43 am
This is brilliant, thank you
It was the first annoying thing I noticed after switching from Unity.
September 1st, 2011 at 10:49 am
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