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John
Asked: 2011-04-08 12:31:31 +0800 CST

Keyboard shortcut to hide/unhide the panel?

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Is there a way to assign a keyboard shortcut to hide or unhide a specific gnome-panel?

EDIT: Is there was a way to make a button combination have the auto-hide panel slide out, as if I had hovered my mouse on that side of the screen?

10.10

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  1. Best Answer

    There is a trick to do that.

    Part One - How to hide/show all gnome panels

    1) Make this file: 

    gedit ~/.gpnaelhs

    2) Paste this into it: 

    #!/bin/bash

count=0
while read line
do
   keys[$((++count))]="${line}/auto_hide"
done <<EOF
$( gconftool-2 --all-dirs "/apps/panel/toplevels" )
EOF

case $( gconftool-2 --get "${keys[1]}" ) in
   "0" | "false" | "False" )
      new="true"
      ;;
   * )
      new="false"
      ;;
esac

for key in "${keys[@]}"
do
   gconftool-2 --set "$key" --type bool "$new"
done

#End of File

    3) Save.

    4) Make it executable: 

    sudo chmod +x ~/.gpnaelhs

    5) Make a shortcut for it: 

    gnome-keybinding-properties

    6) Click "Add" and put a name (p. ex. "Gnome Panel Hide - Unhide") and the command 

    bash -c '~/.gpnaelhs'

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    7) Click "Ok"

    8) Click "Disable" and choose your shortcut (p. ex. Ctrl + P

    Part Two - How to hide/show only one gnome panel

    1) First please backup your settings 

    gconftool --dump /apps/panel > ~/.panel.settings.backup.xml

    and

    mkdir ~/.panel.folders.backup && cp -r ~/.gconf/apps/panel/toplevels/ ~/.panel.folders.backup/

    2) Now we have to do 2 things. First: edit the file ~/.gpnaelhs and change "/apps/panel/toplevels" for "/apps/panel/toplevels/panel_0" (change the number as needed).

    3) Then: delete the folders named panel_0 or panel_1 or panel_2 ... at /apps/panel/toplevels.

    Enjoy!

    Reference.

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