How to get rid of the panels in Ubuntu

21 ביולי, 2010

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In my last post about netbooks I said I'll make it so some kind of series of guides, so here the second part

One of the biggest problems when using a nebook is that every pixel matters. the screen is so small that you really need save as much screen as you can.

For that reason i found it very comfortable to replace the panels with a dock such as Avant Window Navigator (and not like Docky that I don't like at all!).
when I looked on web (or more exact, on Google) I wasn't able to find anything useful about it, so i went to our chat (#ubuntu-il) and got the answer right away (thanks Avishay! you're the man!) :

WARNING: make sure you have a menu somewhere else, since after that step you can't use Alt+F1 or Alt+F2.

First open the terminal (for beginners: Applications > Accessories > Terminal),
now enter the command:

gconf-editor /desktop/gnome/session

double click the option "required_components_list" and remove from the list the "panel" value.

logout and login back,
that's it!

Dor

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ethana2 • בתאריך: 21 ביולי, 2010 בשעה: 3:31

.I put my menu bar in my top panel, so getting rid of it would save no space whatsoever
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Andy • בתאריך: 22 ביולי, 2010 בשעה: 1:36

I've found that the best solution in my opinion is to keep the top panel and set AWN to autohide below the bottom of the window. When working I now only have one panel and when I head back to the dock it appears – simples!
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Oded • בתאריך: 19 באוגוסט, 2010 בשעה: 20:31

I've worked with AWN in the past, and at the time i was using AWN with auto hide and also a single auto hidden panel at the top with a menu and some important applets. That way i can easily get to the gnome menu (I know you can now have a menu applet in AWN but at the time it wasnt available).

Eventually i stopped using it and went back to the panel only solution with the top panel always showing and the bottom auto hidden, beacuse i was using a lot of applets – including Ubuntu's session applets – for which there was simply not a good enough AWN based replacement. As a result I found that moving to AWN did add a bit of space to me screen, and a lot of eye candy , but at the cost of seriuosly degrading my workflow efficiency and ease of use. It was simply not worth it.
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