How to turn off a particular component or section?

[thatlittleboy]

I must be missing something really basic, but how do I disable a particular component or section?

For example, I want to turn off this part

Disabling components

I would've thought something like

lualine.setup {
  options = {
    theme = "auto",
    component_separators = "|",
    disabled_filetypes = {
      "packer",
      "NvimTree",
    },
    sections = {
      lualine_x = {"filetype"}, -- this <<<<<
    },
  }
}

would work, but it doesn't. After restarting neovim, I still see the fileencoding and fileformat.

Disabling entire section

Doing

    sections = {
      lualine_x = {}, -- or nil
    },

I expect to remove the entire section, but again, it doesn't do what I expect. The section still exists after restarting neovim.

Any help?

Additional info

:verbose set statusline returns me this

statusline=%#lualine_a_command# COMMAND %#lualine_transitional_lualine_a_command_to_lualine_c_normal
#%<%#lualine_c_normal# lualine.lua %#lualine_c_normal#%=%#lualine_c_normal# utf-8 |%#lualine_c_normal
#  |%#lualine_x_filetype_DevIconLua_command# %#lualine_c_normal# lua %#lualine_transitional_lualine_
b_command_to_lualine_c_normal#%#lualine_b_command# 36%% %#lualine_transitional_lualine_a_command_to_l
ualine_b_command#%#lualine_a_command#

[yutkat]

lualine.setup {
  options = {
    theme = "auto",
    component_separators = "|",
    disabled_filetypes = {
      "packer",
      "NvimTree",
    },
  },
  sections = {
    lualine_x = {"filetype"}, -- this <<<<<
  }
}

[thatlittleboy]

oops, my bad. thanks