<html> <head> <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"> </head> <body bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000"> As mentioned previously on the list [1] we are only specifically calling for testing as things turn up needing testing. So - this is the first one of those. This is available for testing in Trusty, Utopic and Vivid. So not using the dev version shouldn't hold anyone back here ;) The staging ppa [2] holds these packages. Currently there are a few updated packages there, currently we are only interested in one : xfce4-panel. This includes intelligent hiding - and it is this that we are wanting testing. sudo add-apt-repository ppa:xubuntu-dev/xubuntu-staging sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install xfce4-panel restart the panel from Alt +F2 using xfce4-panel --restart Go to Panel Preferences > Display and set Automatically hide the panel to Intelligently The panel should only hide when a window (maximised for instance) would cover the panel. Moving an un-maximised window over the panel should also hide the panel. Please test this for at least a few days. If you do happen across a bug, please report that upstream [3] and make sure to add Intelligent Hiding to the bug title. You can also reply to this thread with a link to that reported bug. If you've not got ppa-purge installed, now might be a good time for that. To remove the panel we are testing run sudo ppa-purge ppa:xubuntu-dev/xubuntu-staging thanks [1] <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/xubuntu-devel/2014-November/010491.html">https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/xubuntu-devel/2014-November/010491.html</a> [2] <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://launchpad.net/~xubuntu-dev/+archive/ubuntu/xubuntu-staging">https://launchpad.net/~xubuntu-dev/+archive/ubuntu/xubuntu-staging</a> [3] <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://bugzilla.xfce.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=Xfce4-panel">https://bugzilla.xfce.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=Xfce4-panel</a> </body> </html>