Panels autohide delay - Xubuntu 18.04 with XFCE4.14

[zyga91]

Hi there,

I have a little problem with tweaking my new Xubuntu 18.04 installation. Is there any way to delay panels autohiding in XFCE4.14?

By google i found this one https://forum.xfce.org/viewtopic.php?id=11816 but it doesn't work. I tried old method with editing/creating ".gtkrc-2.0", but it was blind shot obviously.

Any help? :(

[webaake]

Here are some tips for xfce4-panel 4.14 GTK3 themeing: https://docs.xfce.org/xfce/xfce4-panel/theming. But the implemntation of GTK3 doesn't seem complete in 4.14, for the panel anyway.

*I just upgraded my xfce to 4.14 yesterday too, on 18.04. Seems great!

[guiverc]

You might want to confirm your XFCE version & release details.

A new installation of Xubuntu 18.04 LTS has XFCE 4.12.4, Xubuntu 19.10 comes with 4.14, or did you add the Xubuntu teams PPA to upgrade to 4.14 or something else?

[webaake]

Yayy! Solved it! For 4.14 GTK3 it's the file ~/.config/gtk-3.0/gtk.css you have to edit. Example;
/* xfce4-panel 4.14 test */
* {
-XfcePanelWindow-popup-delay: 5000;
-XfcePanelWindow-popdown-delay: 1000;
-XfcePanelWindow-autohide-size: 10;
}



5000 is a lot! Restart xfce4-panel with:
xfce4-panel -r

[him610]

In Xubuntu 20.04, right click on panel background....
Scroll down to 'Panel,' highlight-click on 'Panel Preferences'
Where it says 'Lock panel', click the box to the left to unlock it (shows no check mark)
Where it says 'Automatically hide the panel:' highlight box to the right -
In the dropdown list, select [ Never | Automatically | Always ]
Close

[webaake]

And how do you control the delay?

[him610]

And how do you control the delay?
My apologies, I missed that part; however, I looked up the documentation here, https://docs.xfce.org/xfce/xfce4-panel/start
Autohiding of the panel is not discussed. Doesn't mean it can not be done.
It could be a matter for a discrepancy (bug) report detailed here, https://docs.xfce.org/contribute/start#bug_reporting_and_testing

[webaake]

Did you read my post with the solution?

[him610]

Congratulations on finding a solution to your issue. Now, how about using the thread tools to mark it Solved.