{"id":9538,"date":"2019-11-13T15:01:44","date_gmt":"2019-11-13T15:01:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/?p=9538"},"modified":"2021-09-25T06:10:06","modified_gmt":"2021-09-25T06:10:06","slug":"hide-mounted-drives-left-dock-ubuntu-19-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/2019\/11\/hide-mounted-drives-left-dock-ubuntu-19-10\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Remove Mounted Drives From the Left Dock in Ubuntu 21.10, 20.04"},"content":{"rendered":"

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This tutorial shows how to hide the icons of mounted drives \/ partitions<\/b> from the left (or bottom) dock launcher in Ubuntu 21.10 and \/ or Ubuntu 20.04.<\/p>\n

When you plug in a USB drive or browse through an external system partition in Nautilus file manager, a new device icon will appear in the left dock panel in Ubuntu Gnome desktop.<\/p>\n

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To keep your panel clean, you may remove these removable device icons and prevent them from appearing again. And this can be done either by running a single command in terminal or using a graphical configuration tool called Dconf Editor.<\/p>\n

Single command to hide mounted devices from Ubuntu Dock:<\/h3>\n

1.) Firstly, open terminal either by pressing Ctrl+Alt+T<\/b> key combination on keyboard or by searching it from the Activities<\/i> overview screen.<\/p>\n

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2.) When terminal opens, copy and paste the command below into it and hit Enter.<\/p>\n

gsettings set org.gnome.shell.extensions.dash-to-dock show-mounts false<\/pre>\n
Removable disk and USB icons on panel disappear immediately after running this command.<\/p>\n
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(Optional) At anytime, you can reset the change if you change your mind by running command in a terminal windows:<\/p>\n
gsettings reset org.gnome.shell.extensions.dash-to-dock show-mounts<\/pre>\n
Remove Mounted icons from Ubuntu Dock via Dconf Editor:<\/h3>\n
For those hating Linux command, an advanced configuration tool ‘Dconf Editor’ is present to do the trick.<\/p>\n
1.)<\/b> Firstly, search for and install dconf editor<\/code> via Ubuntu Software if you don’t have it:<\/p>\n
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2.)<\/b> Next search for and launch the tool from activities overview, then navigate to org\/gnome\/shell\/extensions\/dash-to-dock<\/code>.<\/p>\n
There scroll down and find out the key “show-mounts<\/b>“, and turn off the toggle icon will do the job.<\/p>\n
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Toggle show mount icons on Ubuntu Dock<\/p><\/div>\n
That’s all. Enjoy!<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
This tutorial shows how to hide the icons of mounted drives \/ partitions from the left (or bottom) dock launcher in Ubuntu 21.10 and \/ or Ubuntu 20.04. When you plug in a USB drive or browse through an external system partition in Nautilus file manager, a new device icon will appear in the left […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":34682,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9538","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-howtos"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9538","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9538"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9538\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34682"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}