{"id":9873,"date":"2020-03-12T16:58:42","date_gmt":"2020-03-12T16:58:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/?p=9873"},"modified":"2020-03-12T16:58:42","modified_gmt":"2020-03-12T16:58:42","slug":"hide-activities-button-ubuntu-18-04","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/2020\/03\/hide-activities-button-ubuntu-18-04\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Hide Top-left &#8216;Activities&#8217; Button in Ubuntu 18.04"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/classic-gnome-icon.png\" alt=\"gnome shell\" width=\"245\" height=\"250\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5741\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This quick tutorial shows how to remove the Activities button in the left corner of top-bar in Ubuntu Gnome desktop.<\/p>\n<p>The top-left corner &#8216;Activities&#8217; button shows all opened application windows with a search box on the top and workspaces on the right. Some users find it useless and want to remove the button. And it can be done easily via a Gnome Shell extension.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/remove-activities.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"360\" height=\"279\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-9875\" \/><\/p>\n<p><b>1.<\/b> Open Ubuntu Software, search for and install <code>Hide Activities Button<\/code>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/install-hideactivities.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"282\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-9874\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/install-hideactivities.png 600w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/install-hideactivities-450x212.png 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Install the first one. So far, it supports Gnome up to v3.34 (shipped in <b>Ubuntu 19.10<\/b>). Done!<\/p>\n<p><b>2.<\/b> To manage the extension, install and launch <b>Gnome Tweaks<\/b> via Ubuntu Software, then go to Extensions tab.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/toggle-hide-activities-extension.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"260\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-9876\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/toggle-hide-activities-extension.png 600w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/toggle-hide-activities-extension-450x195.png 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This quick tutorial shows how to remove the Activities button in the left corner of top-bar in Ubuntu Gnome desktop. The top-left corner &#8216;Activities&#8217; button shows all opened application windows with a search box on the top and workspaces on the right. Some users find it useless and want to remove the button. And it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[1889],"class_list":["post-9873","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-howtos","tag-remove-activities-button"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9873","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=9873"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9873\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}