How do i remove Youtube from 3.9.1 OS?

#1

how do i remove Youtube from 3.9.1 OS? Earlier OS versions were easy to do this.
OS 3.9.1 seems to have made this difficult?

#2

You can’t directly, as the corresponding desktop specification files are part of the OSTree Deployment, which is read-only.

However, you can hide it. Example for Youtube:

Get the current Deployment:

ostree admin status

will give you something like:

* eos 964fe05939b539b6273b6e44a52e179e91f86fa64cbca44bc7ed32c38d094018.0
    Version: 3.9.1
    origin refspec: eos:os/eos/amd64/eos3a
    GPG: Signature made Mon 07 Dec 2020 04:33:36 PM CET using RSA key ID 9E08D8DABA02FC46
    GPG: Good signature from "EOS OSTree Signing Key 1 <maintainers@endlessm.com>"
    GPG: Key expires Sat 30 Jun 2029 06:18:11 PM CEST
    GPG: Signature made Mon 07 Dec 2020 04:33:40 PM CET using RSA key ID FCF17B17F1F8E157
    GPG: Good signature from "EOS Flatpak Signing Key 1 <maintainers@endlessm.com>"
    GPG: Key expires Tue 09 Jun 2026 07:47:38 PM CEST
  eos dbc65bfff121b358e77af3f84fa870037a5f5ba7a7b1b47dcc49a4ffc413a28f.0 (rollback)
    Version: 3.9.0
    origin refspec: eos:os/eos/amd64/eos3a
    GPG: Signature made Mon 09 Nov 2020 04:34:41 PM CET using RSA key ID 9E08D8DABA02FC46
    GPG: Good signature from "EOS OSTree Signing Key 1 <maintainers@endlessm.com>"
    GPG: Key expires Sat 30 Jun 2029 06:18:11 PM CEST
    GPG: Signature made Mon 09 Nov 2020 04:34:45 PM CET using RSA key ID FCF17B17F1F8E157
    GPG: Good signature from "EOS Flatpak Signing Key 1 <maintainers@endlessm.com>"
    GPG: Key expires Tue 09 Jun 2026 07:47:38 PM CEST

The currently booted deployment is marked with a asterix. Remember the Hash for the deployment, in my case 964fe05939b539b6273b6e44a52e179e91f86fa64cbca44bc7ed32c38d094018.0.

Find the corresponding Desktop specification

All the Specification files are located under the following Path:

/sysroot/ostree/deploy/eos/deploy/964fe05939b539b6273b6e44a52e179e91f86fa64cbca44bc7ed32c38d094018.0/usr/share/applications

(Replace the Hash with yours from the first Step).

Now, copy the file - eos-link-youtube.desktop in this case - to your local path ~/.local/share/applications

Hide the Entry

Edit the file in your local path with the Editor and insert the following line:

Hidden=true

Now the entry no longer shows up.

Probably a better solution is to simply keep everything you use on a daily basis on the first page of the Desktop and everything else from the second one onward.

Eliminar YouTube (u otra app) de la pantalla principal
Remove desktop shortcuts that were created using web browser
#3

You can remove it through Parental Controls

#4

Hi Egrath.

This is appreciated. Am on it.

P

#5

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