How to delete the last gnome panel?

Question

How do i get rid of the last panel in Classic Gnome session in 12.04? I couldn't find any way for Precise.

when you have more than one panel, e.g one at the top of the screen and one at the bottom, the panel's right click menu allows you to delete one panel, but not the last one, i.e, there has to be at least one panel

CoalaWeb · Accepted Answer · 2012-07-08 22:37:16Z

This worked in 11.04 so it's worth a try. Open up classic-gnome.session the example below uses nano to edit the file.

sudo nano /usr/share/gnome-session/sessions/classic-gnome.session

and change these two lines

Required=windowmanager;panel;filemanager;
Required-panel=gnome-panel

to this

Required=windowmanager;filemanager;
#Required-panel=gnome-panel

Then log out and back in.

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I see this marked as answered but this does not apply to 12.04. The lines stated above are not present in the classic-gnome.session file. [GNOME Session] Name=GNOME Classic RequiredComponents=gnome-panel;gnome-settings-daemon; RequiredProviders=windowmanager; DefaultProvider-windowmanager=gnome-wm DefaultProvider-notifications=notify-osd IsRunnableHelper=/usr/lib/gnome-session/gnome-session-check-accelerated FallbackSession=gnome-fallback DesktopName=GNOME

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