I don’t use VLC that much to have it there, so I would like to remove it from the sound menu in the top right. I found a small image to show what it looks like (the sound menu is open and shows VLC along with other music players).
Sorry for giving a very low resolution image.
To disable VLC in sound menu, follow the steps:
Move VLC DBus plugin
sudo mv /usr/lib/vlc/plugins/control/libdbus_plugin.so /usr/lib/vlc/plugins/control/libdbus_plugin.so.backup
Open dconf-editor, Remove vlc.desktop from:
/com/canonical/indicator/sound/interested-media-players
Or just reset it through terminal
dconf reset /com/canonical/indicator/sound/interested-media-players
Note: Someones may like to Modify sound indicator menu to hide controls from inactive player or remove it after closeing. In other words, Running players have full controls, Closed ones either only launcher (no control buttons) or disappear totally from menu.
