Hide topbar while using Google Chrome

[reetawwsum]

How to hide top bar (which includes buttons like clock, battery meter, etc ) on ubuntu 13.04 while using Google Chrome. Same feature can be seen on Sublime Text 2 when we use full screen mode (F11) and only tabs and page is visible (basically hiding the top bar).

[newb85]

Did it not work to fullscreen chrome using F11?

[reetawwsum]

F11 results in hiding chrome tabs and omnibox too. I just want to hide top bar.

[ibjsb4]

Looks like you have to run a different desktop to do that

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2132759

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.p...1#post12527441

Maybe things will change in 13.10

[kostkon]

A lot of suggestions / solutions can be found here.

[newb85]

I see. The problem is that Unity's top panel doesn't have a hide or autohide feature, and Chrome's fullscreen mode doesn't show tabs. Given the direction Canonical has taken Unity, the former is unlikely to change.

You could try a different desktop environment, like Cairo-Dock, that doesn't require any permanent real estate. Or, you could try a different browser. Firefox, for example, will show the tabs and address bar in fullscreen mode if you mouse to the top of the screen.