How to disable the brightness slider in the Gnome 3 aggregate menu?

Clash Royale CLAN TAG #URR8PPP up vote 3 down vote favorite I have a desktop with a UPS connected to it. In the Gnome menu where I can log off I have another slider below the volume slider which appears to be the brightness slider and it doesn't work nor did I expect it to work. How can I remove this or how can I tell Gnome that, yes my computer has a battery but that doesn't mean it's a laptop or that brightness controls work with these monitors. I checked all extensions offered for brightness on the Gnome website, looked at Gnome help and checked all I can find in dconf editor under /org/gnome, no luck. Edit: I found this repository: https://github.com/dffischer/gnome-aggregatemenu-hider I installed waf but but the hider fails to build: $ ./waf --targets=Brightness configure build Setting top to : gnome-aggregatemenu-hider Setting out to : gnome-aggregatemenu-hider/build 'configure' finished successfully (0.004s) Waf: Entering directory `gnome-aggrega...