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Heisenberg
Asked: 2020-08-06 00:48:30 +0800 CST

Is there a way to hide ubuntu dock and top bar using terminal?

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I want a shortcut to hide the top bar and dock, so I thought the best way to do that would be to figure out a terminal command which does the same.So, can someone tell me the command to do so or another way to make the shortcut work?

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    This command can be used to hide the topbar

    gdbus call --session --dest org.gnome.Shell --object-path /org/gnome/Shell --method org.gnome.Shell.Eval string:'Main.panel.actor.hide();'

    to show it back

    gdbus call --session --dest org.gnome.Shell --object-path /org/gnome/Shell --method org.gnome.Shell.Eval string:'Main.panel.actor.show();'

    You can tweak the commands with a script to toggle show and hide.

    For Ubuntu dock hiding - the below workaround is a bit overkill because we are disabling the whole extension.

    gdbus call --session --dest org.gnome.Shell.Extensions --object-path /org/gnome/Shell/Extensions --method org.gnome.Shell.Extensions.DisableExtension [email protected]

    for enabling back

    gdbus call --session --dest org.gnome.Shell.Extensions --object-path /org/gnome/Shell/Extensions --method org.gnome.Shell.Extensions.EnableExtension [email protected]

    You can tweak the commands with a script to toggle Enabling and Disabling

    All together, you can have a single keyboard shortcut that can toggle "Hiding the Topbar and disabling the Extension" "Showing the Topbar and Enabling the Extension"

    You can create a script with below content.

    #!/bin/bash

status1=$(gdbus call --session --dest org.gnome.Shell --object-path /org/gnome/Shell --method org.gnome.Shell.Eval string:'Main.panel.actor.visible;')
status2=$(gdbus call --session --dest org.gnome.Shell.Extensions --object-path /org/gnome/Shell/Extensions --method org.gnome.Shell.Extensions.GetExtensionInfo [email protected] | grep "'state': <2.0>" >/dev/null && echo "OFF" || echo "ON")

if [ "$status1" == "(true, 'false')" ]; then
  gdbus call --session --dest org.gnome.Shell --object-path /org/gnome/Shell --method org.gnome.Shell.Eval 'Main.panel.actor.show();'
else
  gdbus call --session --dest org.gnome.Shell --object-path /org/gnome/Shell --method org.gnome.Shell.Eval 'Main.panel.actor.hide();'
fi

if [ "$status2" == "ON" ]; then
  gdbus call --session --dest org.gnome.Shell.Extensions --object-path /org/gnome/Shell/Extensions --method org.gnome.Shell.Extensions.DisableExtension [email protected]
else
  gdbus call --session --dest org.gnome.Shell.Extensions --object-path /org/gnome/Shell/Extensions --method org.gnome.Shell.Extensions.EnableExtension [email protected]
fi

    Below GIF shows the result. However, when gnome-shell refreshes/re-login/reboot etc. will affect the persistence.

    screenshot

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