Remove mail menu from indicator-messages

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I'm using popper mail notification, which integrates into the messaging applet, therefore I have no use for the default message indicator entries. Is there a way to hide/remove them?

I already disabled the thunderbird unity integration add-on.

score 8 · Accepted Answer · edited Jan 08 '12 at 18:55

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You just need to remove the Thunderbird file from /usr/share/indicators/messages/applications.

edited Jan 08 '12 at 18:55

Justinas Dūdėnas

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answered Oct 14 '11 at 13:51

RolandiXor

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Already tried it, but no luck. – Dinin Oct 15 '11 at 20:04
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@Dinin: what steps did you take? Without the addon and the entry in that folder, there should be nothing there. – RolandiXor Oct 15 '11 at 21:12
There was a hidden backup of thunderbird in /usr/share/indicators/messages. Removing this solved my problem. THX – Dinin Oct 19 '11 at 12:35

zgrge · Answer 2 · 2012-01-09T17:51:09.367

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/usr/share/indicators/messages/applications/ as explained here, are just text files containing path to desktop file. You can blacklist them per-user:

cp /usr/share/indicators/messages/applications/* ~/.config/indicators/messages/applications-blacklist/

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answered Jan 09 '12 at 16:03

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score 1 · Answer 3 · answered Jan 10 '13 at 01:01

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You might need to reload the message indicator app. The following works in xfce (xubuntu)

pkill -HUP -f indicator-messages-service

answered Jan 10 '13 at 01:01

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Remove mail menu from indicator-messages

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