How to remove "Starred" from the Nautilus side panel

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To remove "Starred" from the Nautilus side panel, you must override the built-in UI description.

NOTE: ANY AND ALL CHANGES TO CORE PARTS OF YOUR OS ARE STRICTLY 'USER BEWARE' AND SHOULD NOT BE ATTEMPTED BY NOVICES. FURTHERMORE, ALWAYS BACK YOUR SYSTEM UP!

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Here are the steps:

  1. Create a location for the overrides, in Terminal:

mkdir ~/.config/nautilus/ui

  1. Extract the resource description of the main window, using this command in Terminal:
gresource extract /bin/nautilus \
          /org/gnome/nautilus/ui/nautilus-window.ui \
          > ~/.config/nautilus/ui/nautilus-window.ui

  1. Open .config/nautilus/ui/nautilus-window.ui with your chosen text editor.

  2. Find <property name="show-starred-location">True</property>

  3. Change the property from:

<property name="show-starred-location">True</property>

to:

<property name="show-starred-location">False</property>

  1. Set the environment variable to make GLib use this override, in Terminal:

export G_RESOURCE_OVERLAYS="/org/gnome/nautilus/ui=$HOME/.config/nautilus/ui"

  1. Due to Nautilus being started via D-Bus, you will likely need to set this via ~/.pam_environment…

G_RESOURCE_OVERLAYS DEFAULT="/org/gnome/nautilus/ui=/home/confetti/.config/nautilus/ui"

…or ~/.config/systemd/user/dbus.service.d/environment.conf:

[Service] Environment="G_RESOURCE_OVERLAYS=/org/gnome/nautilus/ui=/home/confetti/.config/nautilus/ui"

  1. Log out and back in to view the changes.

Source of this information: linux - How to remove "starred" tab in gnome's nautilus? - Super User

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