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Zany_Zachary1
Asked: 2022-03-01 11:24:42 +0800 CST

Hide Top Bar in overview

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What I want to do:

Hide the GNOME Panel while Overview/App Grid is open, but show it on the desktop. So when I go to my activities overview or look at my apps, the panel is not there. But when I am looking at the desktop, it is there, and I can interact with it and everything.

What I've Tried:

I've tried variations of Hide Top Bar extensions without any luck.

Theoretically

You should be able to make an extension to do this, right? I have very very little knowledge of how to make an extension for GNOME, so any help would be appreciated.

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3 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    For the native panel

    Install Hide Panel extension by fthx

    open ~/.local/share/gnome-shell/extensions/hide-panel@fthx/extension.js

    modify AppMenu.container.hide()

            this.showing = Overview.connect('showing', this._show_panel.bind(this));
        this.hiding = Overview.connect('hiding', this._hide_panel.bind(this));

    to

            this.showing = Overview.connect('hiding', this._show_panel.bind(this));
        this.hiding = Overview.connect('showing', this._hide_panel.bind(this));

    Voila.

    Now this extension hides the panel from overview.

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  2. you can do this by setting this extention. Try the sudo apt install gnome-shell command before installation.

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  3. I'm offering only a partial solution which implies the use of dash to panel extension with intellihide ON.

    The intellihide works awesome except it reveals the panel in overview.

    The responsible is _checkIfShouldBeVisible in ~/.local/share/gnome-shell/extensions/[email protected]/intellihide.js

        _checkIfShouldBeVisible: function(fromRevealMechanism) {
        if (Main.overview.visibleTarget || this._dtpPanel.taskbar.previewMenu.opened || 
            this._panelBox.get_hover() || this._checkIfGrab()) {
            return true;
        }

    Changing the _checkIfShouldBeVisible to

        _checkIfShouldBeVisible: function(fromRevealMechanism) {
        if (Main.overview.visibleTarget) {
            return false;
        }
        else if (Main.overview.visibleTarget || this._panelBox.get_hover() || this._checkIfGrab() || this._dtpPanel.taskbar.previewMenu.opened) {
            return true;
        }

    hides the panel from overview.

    This works for gnome 3.36, 41 and I believe for all the other versions.

    I don't yet know how to use intellihide to interact with the panel for the overview only and it was my main goal. As of now I'm ok with this.

    EDIT:

    I've found a better solution with intellihide OFF

    ~/.local/share/gnome-shell/extensions/[email protected]/panel.js

    _adjustForOverview: function()

    change

    this.panelBox[isShown ? 'show' : 'hide']();

    to

    this.panelBox[isShown ? 'hide' : 'hide']();

    but now there's no nice smooth animation.. not a big deal I think

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