podman-desktop/website/docs/configuration
Charlie Drage b6a6aac90a
chore(config): add setting to disable extension catalog (#16425)
### What does this PR do?

Adds a setting to disable the extension catalog throughout PD.

This can be done by adding the setting manually to your
`~/.local/share/containers/podman-desktop/configuration/settings.json`
with:

```
"extensions.catalog.enabled": false
```

Which will disable the appearance of the catalog throughout PD.

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### What issues does this PR fix or reference?

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Closes https://github.com/podman-desktop/podman-desktop/issues/16036

### How to test this PR?

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1. Edit
   `~/.local/share/containers/podman-desktop/configuration/settings.json`
2. Add: `"extensions.catalog.enabled": false`
3. Start / Restart PD
4. See that you cannot access the catalog from the following places:
   Extensions, Settings > Authentication, and Kubernetes (with no
   context).

Signed-off-by: Charlie Drage <charlie@charliedrage.com>
Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-03-12 15:04:29 +00:00
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img docs: add managed-by GUI label information (#15070) 2025-11-26 15:49:48 +00:00
index.md docs: add documentation for managed-by config and settings config (#14367) 2025-11-20 21:09:19 +00:00
managed-configuration-troubleshooting.md docs(managed-by): elaborate more on managed-by config settings (#15199) 2025-12-03 16:07:49 -05:00
managed-configuration-use-cases.md docs: add information regarding registries.defaults (#15075) 2025-12-03 20:24:26 +00:00
managed-configuration.md docs(managed-by): fix title of json for linux (#15278) 2025-12-08 17:00:06 -05:00
settings-reference.md chore(config): add setting to disable extension catalog (#16425) 2026-03-12 15:04:29 +00:00