How do I hide the panels in fallback mode using the command line?

Question

I want to hide the panels via script.

in maverick I used gconftool-2 --set "/apps/panel/toplevels/top_panel_screen0/auto_hide" --type bool "true"

now I tried

      gsettings set org.gnome.gnome-panel.layout ...

but there is a problem:

     gsettings list-keys org.gnome.gnome-panel.layout

tells me:

     object-id-list
     toplevel-id-list

but in dconf editor there are 2 subfolder layers called toplevels and then top-panel /bottom-panel I have no idea how to get there.

it should be

toplevels.top-panel auto_hide true

I tried all different things to get there...no way. does that mean you cannot change these values from commandline any more?

Answer 1

As an alternative to gsettings you can use dconf from the command line as well.

For example

dconf write /org/gnome/gnome-panel/layout/toplevels/bottom-panel/auto-hide true

This will write the value TRUE to the auto-hide key.

If you need to see the keys in a path then use the list parameter

For example:

dconf list /org/gnome/gnome-panel/layout/toplevels/top-panel/

Remember to start with a / and end with a / for paths.