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Bakhtiyor
Asked: 2010-12-06 17:05:07 +0800 CST

How to hide bottom panel in GNOME?

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I want to hide bottom panel so that I would be able to show it again when I want. In the properties menu of the panel there is an option for Autohide but not hide totally.

The reason I need it, is because I am using Docky panel and it now it is behind the bottom panel and looks like awful.

What I am doing right now is I am deleting it totally by right clicking on the panel. And the only way I know to return it back is executing following command in the terminal.

rm -r ~/.gconf/apps/panel

Any other solutions?

10.10 gnome-panel

5 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    You can enable buttons to hide the panel whenever you want - if you don't want to delete the panel altogether:

    →

    To do this, right click the panel, select Properties and check Show hide buttons

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  2. Are you maybe using an older Ubuntu version? I wrote a Gnome patch a long time ago, which changed the standard auto hide size to 0/1 pixel. At least the last two Gnome versions should ship with that patch.

    Of course you can also change it manually:

    • Open the application gconf-editor. If you don't have it, install it.
    • Go to /apps/panel/toplevels/bottom_panel_screen0
    • Change the value auto_hide_size to 0 or 1.
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  3. Here's the best way to hide the gnome panel:

    1. Install compiz and ccsm
    2. Open ccsm and enable the "widget layer" feature
    3. In the widget layer options, go to "behaviour" tab
    4. Add the line name=gnome-panel in the field widget windows
    5. Close ccsm

    Once this is done you will see the gnome panels only when you display the widget layer. the default key for this is F9

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    1. Alt+F2
    2. Type gconf-editor
    3. Browse to apps/panel/toplevels/panel_1/monitor
    4. Set value to -6
    5. Finish
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  5. I simply recommend to remove the bottom panel. Docky replicates the full functionality of the bottom panel, so you do not need it.

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