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[SOLVED] Unable to hide 'tools' in rEFInd (lemmy.today)

submitted 6 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I want to hide the about tag in rEFInd. So, I did according to the info in config and website, which is to add a showtools line with no options.

And, nothing happens. I still see About, Shutdown, Reboot, Firmware tools in the rEFInd screen

# Default is shell,memtest,gdisk,apple_recovery,windows_recovery,mok_tool,about,hidden_tags,shutdown,reboot,firmware,fwupdate
# To completely disable scanning for all tools, provide a showtools line
# with no options.
#
#showtools shell, bootorder, gdisk, memtest, mok_tool, apple_recovery, windows_recovery, about, hidden_tags, reboot, exit, firmware, fwupdate
showtools

Eventhough the previous showtools line is a just a comment, I removed it too. And still nothing happens.

Does anybody have any idea?

I only want Shutdown, Reboot.

SOLVED

It seems like a rEFInd problem in latest version.

https://lemmy.frozeninferno.xyz/comment/16257252

Looks like I have to edit and rebuild it myself. Unfortunately, I'm not really that familiar with building packages myself.

Guess, I have to wait it out.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

This may be the issue: https://sourceforge.net/p/refind/discussion/general/thread/ed3185fb40/

A bug in the most recent release of rEFInd prevents the default showtools list from being cleared out.

You might be able to build it from the latest source to obtain a patched version. I don't use rEFInd, so unfortunately I can't be of much more help.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Thank you. Looks like that's the problem.