Those wishing GNOME 43‘s new Quick Settings menu had an edit button need to check out a new add-on added to the GNOME Extensions website.

It’s called Quick Settings Button Remover and —shock— it does exactly what it claims to: remove buttons from the podrific Quick Settings menu.

Once installed, you can use extension’s settings dialog to choose whether native toggles supported by the new menu appear or not. Dark mode and night light toggles are are the ones I’ve seen users query removing most often, and this can hide both.

With the extension you can hide:

  • System Icons (top row)
  • Brightness slider
  • Volume slider
  • Mic slider (hidden by default)
  • Wireless and Wired Network
  • Bluetooth
  • Aeroplane mode
  • VPN (hidden by default)
  • Power profiles
  • Night Light
  • Dark Mode
  • Rotation lock (hidden by default)

The extension doesn’t do anything beyond this. You can’t reorder buttons, hide button labels, hide icons, or anything else. There’s also no granular control over the icons at the top of the menu (the layout of these varies depending on desktop, laptop, tablet etc) but you can hide the entire row.

On systems with lots of options present, Quick Setting’s big button toggles could feel like they take up room. And if you don’t ever use dark mode, night light, or airplane mode, this extension offers you a quick (and safe) way to remove the ones you don’t need from view (and easily re-enable them at a later date, should you need to).

Source code for the extension is up on GitHub, and you can install the extension from the GNOME Extensions website. If you’re a cool kid who uses the Extension Manager app — I highly recommend it — just open the tool, search for “button remover”, then hit install.