[totaltec]

The best way to ditch the side column in X-cart 5 is to create a controller class that decorates XLite\View\Controller and redefines the getSidebarFirstHiddenTargets() method.

Here is an example from my new Magnifico theme:

namespace XLite\Module\Guru\Magnifico\View;

/**
 * Controller main widget
 *
 */
class Controller extends \XLite\View\Controller implements \XLite\Base\IDecorator
{
    /**
     * Define the pages where first sidebar will be hidden.
     *
     * @return array
     */
    protected static function getSidebarFirstHiddenTargets()
    {   
        $hiddenTargets = [];

        $hiddenTargets[] = 'main';
        
        return array_merge(
            parent::getSidebarFirstHiddenTargets(),
            $hiddenTargets
        );
    }
}

This will remove the sidebar from the target "main" (home page) only.