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Rich
Asked: 2010-10-12 13:19:58 +0800 CST

How to delete Gnome Panel?

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I am trying to get rid of my Gnome panels so that I can go to a purely Docky/Gnome-Do environment.

I have got rid of everything, except for a single remaining panel which I cannot delete.

The text "Delete this panel" is greyed out - any pointers about how to get rid of it?

10.10 gnome-panel

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  1. Best Answer

    I haven't used gnome for a while, but I used to do that with gconf-editor.

    Open "desktop >> gnome >> session >> required_components", then double-click the "panel" option, then remove the "gnome-panel" value and close it, then just:

    killall gnome-panel

    Last time I used this method was with Karmic tho.

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  2. What I like to do is make the GNOME panel part of the Compiz widget layer. That way I can quickly pull up the panel with a hotkey in case I ever need it.

    In CompizConfig Settings Manager, set Desktop -> Widget Layer -> Behavior -> Widget Windows to class=Gnome-panel. Fine-tune the other Widget Layer settings to your preference.

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  3. This also works with Natty Narwhal 11.04.

    Open terminal and type

    rm ~/.gconf/apps/panel/general/%gconf.xml.

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  4. My answer here may help. I figure you can likely do the same with docky that you do with AWN.

    gconftool-2 --type=string --set /desktop/gnome/session/required_components/panel 'docky'
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  5. i solve it by just uninstalling and re-installing compiz manager.

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