hide/remove gnome-panel?

[Chris Mohler]

On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 4:46 PM, Mario Vukelic
<mario.vukelic at dantian.org> wrote:
> On Fri, 2009-01-30 at 16:39 +1800, Chris Mohler wrote:
>> You can disable the gnome panel by going to Sessions-->Current Session
>> and remove gnome panel from the list of running applications.
>>
>> Then go to Session Options and click on the Remember button..
>
> That would work if 8.10 had the same session dialog as 8.04. But alas,
> it does not. The individual running apps are not listed anymore, and the
> options to respawn or not are gone, too.

Yikes.

This method calls for removing gnome-panel entirely (not sure if that
is indeed a  problem when updating):

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=652367

Chris