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Configuring a Panel

Asked by biomedtek

When a panel is set to autohide, a small portion of it is still visible at the edge of the screen. Is there a way to configure how much of the panel remains visible? I would like to have a very narrow portion showing, or perhaps none at all.

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Best Steven Danna (ssd7) said : 		#1

There is a way to do this, but it is done on a per-panel basis so you will have to do it for every panel you want to autohide.

Here is how I did it:

1) Press Alt+F2
2) Type: gconf-editor
3) press run
4) The key you are looking for is /apps/panel/toplevels/top_panel_screen0/auto_hide_size (the auto_hide_size will be in the right pane when you click on top_panel_screen0 on the left. The exact name of the panel may be something different like bottom_panel_screen0)
5) Change the value to 0 or 1
6) Close gconf-editor
7) You might have to unhide and rehide your gnome panel for this to take effect.

While in gconf-editor you may be intersested in some other hiding options such as hide_delay and unhide_delay

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biomedtek (biomedtek) said : 		#2

That did it, thanks a bunch.