##### 16.8.7.9 Hiding contextual menus

GPS provides most of its tools through contextual menus, accessed by right clicking in various parts of GPS. Due to the number of tools provided by GPS, these contextual menus tend to be big, and you might want to control what should be displayed in them. There are several ways to control this:

- Define appropriate filters for your actions

  If you are creating your own contextual menus through customization files and XML, these menus are associated with actions (`<action>`) that you have created yourself most of the time. In this case, you need to define filters appropriately, through the `<filter>` tag, to decide when the action is relevant, and therefore when the contextual menu should be displayed.

- Use shell commands to hide the menus

  If you want to control the visibility of predefined contextual menus, or for menus where you cannot easily modify the associated filter, you can use shell and python commands to hide the menu entry. For this, you will need to find out the name of the menu, which can be done by checking the list returned by `GPS.Contextual.list()` and using the most likely entry. This name is also the value of the `<title>` tag for contextual menus that you have created yourself. Using this name, you can then disable the contextual menu by executing:

                 GPS.Contextual ("name").hide()

  in the python console