hide/remove gnome-panel?

[Chris Mohler]

On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 4:57 PM, Chris Mohler <cr33dog at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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

Oops - but 'killall gnome-panel' no longer works either - it respawns....messy.

Chris