Comments on: Hide Gnome Panel

By: octavhendra

octavhendra — Fri, 07 Oct 2011 00:25:12 +0000

It`s great solution. thanks

By: Bryan

Bryan — Sat, 04 Dec 2010 17:33:17 +0000

Been trying for ages to find a way to completely remove it. Most people accept a single line of pixels when you use auto-hide, but it drives me crazy. This is such a clean solution.

By: sean14916

sean14916 — Sat, 04 Dec 2010 04:30:01 +0000

This seems to not work on 10.04 without installing compiz-fusion-plugins-extra. Even then it disables windows switching whilst the thing is active. The method I’ve been forced to use is to write a shell script to tell gconf-editor to auto-hide or remove auto-hide from the panels and link this to a button through a command.

Is there any way to get widgets working in 10.04?

By: Pham Tieu Giao

Pham Tieu Giao — Sun, 03 Jan 2010 18:10:57 +0000

Thanks a lot for your tip ^^!

By: Thomas Roten

Thomas Roten — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 16:53:18 +0000

Excellent tip!! Thanks for the simple guide to truly hiding the gnome-panel without removing it.

By: Arnold Daniels

Arnold Daniels — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 19:56:10 +0000

Todd: You shouldn’t need to restart, the change should instantly move the panel to the widget layer. Make sure the widget layer is enabled.

If this doesn’t work, click on the big ‘+’ behind the ‘Widget Windows’ field. Select ‘Type’ is ‘Window class’ and press the ‘Grab’ button behind the ‘Value’ field. Click on the toolbar with the cross-hair. The ‘Value’ field should get a value. Than click on ‘Add’.

I added the ‘type=Dock’ entry because don’t want the menu to appear in the widget layer when I press Super+F1. You can omit this though.

By: todd

todd — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 18:36:18 +0000

Hey I followed all the instructions here and my gnome panel is still not ‘in the widget layer’ as far as I can tell.

What else do you have to do ? restart maybe, after making the changes with ccsm ??