Keyboard shortcut to hide/unhide the top panel?

[jjsonp]

I want to hide the top panel via a keyboard shortcut. I don't much like auto-hide, and don't want to have to click the buttons to hide/unhide.

Is there some preset keyboard command for this? If not, is there a command (or a script) to which I can link a keyboard shortcut? Thanks.

[aysiu]

I don't believe there is. If you try the command
man gnome-panel you'll see there are very few options there.

[martin-alsinet]

I want to hide the top panel via a keyboard shortcut. I don't much like auto-hide, and don't want to have to click the buttons to hide/unhide.

Is there some preset keyboard command for this? If not, is there a command (or a script) to which I can link a keyboard shortcut? Thanks.
You can use Alt+F1 to show the Application Menu, which will unhide the top panel, then Esc to hide it back again. I changed it to Ctrl+F1, which is easier to hit for me

[asmoore82]

You can save this as a "HidePanels"

#!/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

Then, copy it to a common folder and make it executable:

sudo cp HidePanels /usr/local/bin/HidePanels
sudo chmod +x /usr/local/bin/HidePanels

and set it as a custom keyboard shortcut command:

gconftool-2 --set "/apps/metacity/keybinding_commands/command_1" --type string "/usr/local/bin/HidePanels"
gconftool-2 --set "/apps/metacity/global_keybindings/run_command_1" --type string "<Control>F1"
^adjust "command_1" and "<Control>F1" as necessary

:KS

[laman259]

Hey I want to do the same thing

I created a new panel with all my useful applications on it, don't want to use the auto-hide but can't be bothered clicking on the arrows to hide it.

Don't really understand anything said above as a solution due to my newness to Linux. :S

Would be sweet as if i could have a keyboard shortcut to hide and un-hide :D

Cheers

[stinkeye]

This will basically do the same as asmoore82's post but without using the terminal.
You'll find later on that for some things it's easier to use the terminal.
Especially when you might be getting answers to something,
it's a lot easier for someone to give a terminal command you can copy and paste
rather than typing go here ..click this ...right click here etc etc.

From asmoore82's post, copy the script in the first code box.
Open up your home folder.
Right click on an empty space ....create document > empty file
Change the name to HidePanels
Open the HidePanels file and paste in the script you copied.
Hit the Save button and close.

Right click on the new HidePanels file.
Properties > permissions .....and tick execute.

Go to the main menu > system > preferences > keyboard shortcuts

Click the add button
Name: HidePanels
Command: /home/your_username/HidePanels

Substitute for your username
Hit the apply button.
Click the shortcut field and add your own shortcut.

[wei2912]

It works quite well. However, is there a way to make the panel not show up even when your mouse is over it? I can't delete the top panel.

[stinkeye]

It works quite well. However, is there a way to make the panel not show up even when your mouse is over it? I can't delete the top panel.

Is this what your after .... Remove all gnome panels on ubuntu lucid lynx (http://balotp.wordpress.com/2010/08/10/remove-all-gnome-panels-on-ubuntu-lucid-lynx/)

[Sotanaht]

I want to use a floating panel as sort of a system management tool, with resource monitors and a force close button, but I don't know what part of that script to alter to make it hide and show my floating panel instead of the one at the top. I'm guessing I have to replace "toplevels" in line 8 with something, but idk what that something is.

[Sotanaht]

After looking in gconf-editor, I navigated to apps > panel > toplevels, and I determined that the panel I wanted to hide was panel_8 by right clicking it, and setting it to autohide in properties, and then searching for the only panel with autohide enabled in gconf-editor (I double-checked by disabling autohide in gconf-editor and seeing if it changed it for the panel as well, which it did). So I changed line 8 in the script to the following

$( gconftool-2 --all-dirs "/apps/panel/toplevels/panel_8" )
but when I run the script, it merely opens a terminal for a split-second and does nothing.
What am I missing here? Does this script simply not work with floating panels?

[peskydonut]

It works quite well. However, is there a way to make the panel not show up even when your mouse is over it? I can't delete the top panel.
You can set the unhide_delay to 1000 before hiding and to 0 before showing.
Source: http://reachbeyondgrasp.blogspot.com/2007/04/hide-and-show-panels-with-keyboard.html

[DorianScholz]

just as a hint for those looking to do this on gnome3. gconf is not the right way to go anymore, use gsettings instead:

$ gsettings set org.gnome.gnome-panel.toplevel:/org/gnome/gnome-panel/layout/toplevels/toplevel-0/ unhide-delay 10000
$ gsettings set org.gnome.gnome-panel.toplevel:/org/gnome/gnome-panel/layout/toplevels/toplevel-0/ auto-hide true

[BaroqueBloke]

EDIT 3: I've managed to achieve a floating panel (http://opensourceexcedio.wordpress.com/2010/12/29/gnome-wingpanel/) after a fashion. Not entirely legit... but it gets the job done.

EDIT 2: Never Mind! I got just the top panel to hide by adding the path to the top panel to the script.
in my case I had to add "panel_0"

Still just working on having it unhide as a floating panel... Will get back to you when I figure it out.

Hope this helps someone!



#!/bin/bash

count=0
while read line
do
keys[$((++count))]="${line}/auto_hide"
done <<EOF
$( gconftool-2 --all-dirs "/apps/panel/toplevels/panel_0")
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


EDIT: I should also note that I realize this is an old thread... but any help I can find is welcome.

Thanks everyone for the info. So far so good, the scripts provided work.

Question however. I have a left side/vertical panel, and a top panel. How should I edit the script so that only the top panel is hidden/shown via the keyboard command? I would like the left hand panel to always be visible.

As an after thought, how would I go about making the top panel, when shown, to sit ontop of open windows, rather than pushing them down?

Any info is appreciated, regardless or not its possible.

Thanks!

-Baroquebloke-