Gnome shell - Remove bottom panel

Question

I have tried many solutions, but bottom bar is still there.

Tried with Tweak Tool but there's no option Remove bottom bar extension in this version. Any help?

OS: Ubuntu 14.04

Answer 1

A fantastically neat way to do this, via a Gnome Shell extension and no code hacking, is to install Dash to Dock:

https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/307/dash-to-dock/

You don't have to have its dock enabled.

In the main tab, set:

• Dock is fixed and always visible to OFF and
• Autohide and Intellihide to OFF

In the optional tab, set:

• Make message tray insensitive to mouse events to ON.

Voila!

Answer 2

In order to remove bottom panel follow the below steps from Wey on the Arch Linux forums:

• Edit /usr/share/gnome-shell/theme/gnome-shell.css: Search for #message-tray and comment the block out with /* ... */. This will remove the black bar, but not the icons and their text.

• Next go to /usr/share/gnome-shell/js/ui/messageTray.js: Search for ICON_SIZE (its in line 881 here) and set it to 0:

  ICON_SIZE: 0,
  

  About three lines below it states

  this.title = title;
  

  Make it

  this.title = '';
  

  This makes the whole thing disappear.

(OR) use yanir's solution from the same thread:

• Edit /usr/share/gnome-shell/theme/gnome-shell.css: Search for #message-tray and comment the block out with /* ... */. This will remove the black bar, but not the icons and their text.

• edit /usr/share/gnome-shell/js/ui/messageTray.js the following way: (the last class at the end of the file)

  const SystemNotificationSource = new Lang.Class({
      Name: 'SystemNotificationSource',
      Extends: Source,
      _init: function() {
          this.parent(_("System Information"));
          this._setSummaryIcon(this.createNotificationIcon());
      },
      createNotificationIcon: function() {
  //        return new St.Icon({ icon_name: 'dialog-information',
  //                             icon_type: St.IconType.SYMBOLIC,
  //                             icon_size: this.ICON_SIZE });
          return 0;
      },
      open: function() {
          this.destroy();
      }
  });