unity panel make sticky

[Johnny Rosenberg]

>>>> I am not trying to steal the thread here, but rather ask some kind of
>>>> a follow-up question. I am still on Ubuntu 10.10 since the upper (and
>>>> only) panel in 11.04 couldn't be auto-hided. Is this possible in
>>>> 11.10? If so, I might give it another try…
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Kind regards
>>>>
>>>> Johnny Rosenberg
>>>> ジョニー・ローゼンバーグ
>>>>
>>>
>>> Hi Johnny,
>>>
>>> It would be best if you started a new thread regarding this, in the
>>> meantime, I'll have a look and see if it is possible. However, it might
>>> not
>>> be possible as it will degrade usability for the user. That means that
>>> every
>>> time you wanted to see the menu options, you will have to wait for the
>>> menu
>>> to show from its auto-hide state and then select an option. That would be
>>> very annoying for me personally.
>>
>> The menu itself is hidden at the moment and does not appear till the
>> mouse is over it, there is no reason why the panel should auto-appear
>> just as quickly as the menu itself appears at the moment, so there
>> would be no additional wait involved.
>>
>> Colin
>>
>>> Perhaps one of the ways to work around this
>>> is to remove the following packages: appmenu-gtk3, appmenu-gtk and
>>> appmenu-qt to get the old menu location back.
>>> --
>>> Best of luck,
>>>
>>> Bruce
>>>
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>>
>>
>>
>
> Hi Colin,
>
> Johnny means using the Gnome 2 option "Autohide" for taskbars where the
> panel is hidden. When the mouse is pointing to the first top pixel it will
> show the taskbar again.
>
> Johnny, I have tried creating the two keys in gconf-editor to have the panel
> hidden by using this article:
> http://atunu.blogspot.com/2008/02/how-to-hide-taskbar-aka-gnome-panel.html
> after logging out and logging in again, it doesn't seem to work.

Did you notice that it seems to have been written in february 2008,
when Ubuntu 7.10 was the latest release?
But I will take a look anyway.

> Therefore,
> I would take it that the autohide feature was deprecated with Gnome 3. Since
> 11.04 still uses the Gnome 2 bindings, it might be possible to use this
> feature, perhaps try setting up a virtualbox/vmware of 11.04 and try it out
> or file a bug at launchpad.net for this as feature request.

Well, I have Ubuntu 11.04 installed on an Eee PC 900 that I use at
work, so no need for Virtualbox or similar. I will have a look as soon
as possible. Thanks.

>
> Henri, you will need to log out and log back in again to see the changes to
> unity after you tweaked the two settings.
> --
> Best of luck,
>
> Bruce


Kind regards

Johnny Rosenberg
ジョニー・ローゼンバーグ