remove gnome-panel

[mihaicj]

Does anybody know a way to make gnome-panel not visible in Karmic? I'm using a dock so I don't really need the panel. Thanks.

[kensum]

right click and choose properties. Autohide and show hidebuttons

[73ckn797]

For the bottom panel right click on the panel and delete panel. Good idea to have the top panel available via auto hide as mentioned already.

[mcduck]

The only way to get rid of the panel, if you don't need it, is to remove it from your Gnome session through gconf-editor. Of course you can configure some other app to run in it's place if you want to.

Removing the last panel isn't possible, and as long as the panel is running as Gnome component it will automatically spawn back if you try to kill it.

So, if you want to remove the Gnome-panel from your desktop you need to start gconf-editor and then remove "panel" from the list in desktop/gnome/session/required_components list (and perhaps also unset the desktop/gnome/session/required_components/panel -key).

But if you are planning to just run some other panel or dock instead it would make sense the leave the panel in the session components, and then just set the desktop/gnome/session/required_components/panel to use whatever program you are planning to run. This would automatically start that app for you and also autospawn it back if it crashes or is killed.

Also note that if you disable Gnome-panel you will loose the Alt-F2 Run dialog as well, so make sure you have some other way to start applications that the Run dialog and panel menus.. If you want similar functionality without running the Gnome-panel Gmrun is a nice app for the purpose, just set Alt-F2 as keyboard shortcut to launch it.

[JugglinPhil]

If those suggestions answered your question you might want to mark this as solved.

[mihaicj]

In Jaunty there used to be a way to put the panel on another screen, even if it didn't actually exist. For example you have one screen (screen 0) but you put the panel on screen 1. Now that doesn't work anymore. Maybe there is another workaround like this one.

[mihaicj]

Does anybody know a better workaround?

[hossdozero]

I'm also curious about how to do this.
The gnome panel is just unnecessary clutter while using cairo

EDIT:

Nevermind, Tried the second option listed by mcduck. seems to work fine...for now.

[ravosava]

The only way to get rid of the panel, if you don't need it, is to remove it from your Gnome session through gconf-editor. Of course you can configure some other app to run in it's place if you want to.

Removing the last panel isn't possible, and as long as the panel is running as Gnome component it will automatically spawn back if you try to kill it.

So, if you want to remove the Gnome-panel from your desktop you need to start gconf-editor and then remove "panel" from the list in desktop/gnome/session/required_components list (and perhaps also unset the desktop/gnome/session/required_components/panel -key).

But if you are planning to just run some other panel or dock instead it would make sense the leave the panel in the session components, and then just set the desktop/gnome/session/required_components/panel to use whatever program you are planning to run. This would automatically start that app for you and also autospawn it back if it crashes or is killed.

Also note that if you disable Gnome-panel you will loose the Alt-F2 Run dialog as well, so make sure you have some other way to start applications that the Run dialog and panel menus.. If you want similar functionality without running the Gnome-panel Gmrun is a nice app for the purpose, just set Alt-F2 as keyboard shortcut to launch it.

how do you do this?

[samigina]

This way (see the attachment)

Change the value of Panel to blank or to the command for your dock.