Questions tagged [autohide]
This tag could be used on questions about auto-hiding panels, launchers etcetera, on the occasion of e.g. a maximized window.
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How do I hide the mouse pointer after inactivity?
I used to use unclutter for hiding the mouse pointer in X11 after some seconds of mouse inactivity. Unfortunately, unclutter does not work under Wayland, to which I migrated.
How do I achieve the ...
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The 'Hide Top Bar' extension says 'The extension is incompatible with current GNOME version'. What do I do?
I recently upgraded to ubuntu 22.04 (jammy). Everything works fine except when I cannot toggle 'hide-top-bar' because it says 'The exention is incompatible with the current GNOME version'. I looked at ...
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Can not uncheck autohide from a panel
I have 3 panels at the top of my screen.
I set all 3 to autohide.
I wanted to uncheck autohide, and was successful for 2 of the 3 panels.
How can I uncheck autohide for that 3rd panel ?
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How to remove xfce-panel popup/popdown delay if select autohide allways?
I use XUbuntu 21.04 - before this I used XUbuntu 20.04
The Auto-Hide does not work any more as expected. There is a delay between hidden and unhidden. This is very annoying.
In the XFCE-panel-...
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auto-hide dock does not show up
Since I upgraded to 21.04, my auto-hide dock (at the left of the screen) remains hidden until I switch its position to the right and back to the left. After that it works as expected (i.e. it appears ...
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My latte-dock does not reappear after auto hiding
I placed my latte dock panel on top of the screen with auto hide enabled. Once this panel auto hides it does not reappear back.
My layout can be found here.
Dock Version 9.86
Kubuntu 20.10
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Hide all windows not working
When I hide all windows using the keyboard shortcut Ctrl+Super+D it hides some but not all of the windows. The remaining windows cannot be clicked and are visible behind the desktop.
System: Ubuntu 20....
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How can I bind a key to show/hide the dock on Ubuntu 20.04?
I like the idea of being able to hide the dock and use as much screen space as possible, but I get really anoyed with the default bahaviour of the "Auto-hide dock" option. Sometimes I hover ...
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I broke system tray and Ubuntu dock
I am using Ubuntu 20.04. Yesterday while looking for a package, I found that Evolution was due for an update. Since I never use it, I thought I would uninstall it. Being I was not aware that gnome is ...
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Autohide not working well with 3 panels
I have 3 panels.
When I set each of them to autohide, only one panel shows when I hover the mouse over it.
Is there a way to have it show all 3 panels?
Ubuntu-Mate 18.04
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How can I change the "reveal pressure" to show Ubuntu Dock when it's (auto-) hidden?
Previously, on older Ubuntu releases with Unity I could manually set the "Launcher Reveal Pressure" to increase or decrease the sensitivity to unhide the Unity Launcher when it's hidden ...
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What exactly do dash-to-dock intellihide and intellihide-mode dconf variables do on GNOME 3?
At least since 18.04 Bionic Beaver, maybe previously, dash-to-dock GNOME extension was defined as system default dock application and its settings are stored through dconf.
One of those got me ...
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Auto-hiding plasma panel vs visual changes while hidden
I have my main plasma panel hidden by default to remove visual clutter and not get distracted. This works fine.
What would make it even better: if visual changes to the panel would happen even when it'...
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Use Gnome dash-to-dock without autohide
I recently installed the 'dash-to-dock' extension for Gnome on Ubuntu 18.04 as I liked the way it looked as opposed to the default dock.
I liked the extension although I wasn't keen on the auto-hide ...
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Hiding taskbar and topbar in Ubuntu 19.04
I'd like to have both the taskbar (Ubuntu Dock) and the topbar auto-hidden in Ubuntu 19.04. I've tried a number of extensions but they're not doing exactly that - mostly they hide then when a window ...
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Disable hot edge to fire Auto-hide Ubuntu Dock
In Ubuntu 18.04 in Settings application I selected Dock from left panel and turned Auto-hide the Dock to On. Dock (the Launcher at the left site of monitor) is now hidden as expected.
There are two ...
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How to enable Hide Top Bar Gnome Extension so that it hides the Top Bar?
I followed the instructions in https://askubuntu.com/a/1029905/340383 using this configuration:
Which seems to be correct, but the Top Bar is still showing on the right monitor (I have a left and ...
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Hide Wallch icon from the top bar
I was wondering if I could hide the Wallch icon from the top bar on my Ubuntu 18.04. It is for student use in my high school. Have any ideas?
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Auto hide applications menu in kde
Lately there are some applications that have the option of hiding the menu and making it visible againg pressing alt, like sublime text, visual studio code, firefox, etc
Is there some plugin to make ...
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KDE Plasma auto-hide panel, show when mouse touches screen edge with force
Is there any possibility to configure an auto-hiding panel in a way it does only show when you touch the screen edge with a certain amount of force, so that you don't accidentally show it when ...
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Auto-hiding the dock covers the desktop icons
As in this question, I found that when I set "Settings -> Dock -> Auto-hide the Dock" to "On", the dock almost completely covers the leftmost column of desktop icons:
This makes it very difficult to ...
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Issue with a 16.04 update
I had my launcher on auto-hide, and reveal on left corner with the sensitivity set in the middle of the slider. When I wanted to see my launcher I would move the cursor to the top left corner, until I ...
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How do I auto-hide the Ubuntu Dock using gsettings on Ubuntu 17.10 and later?
In Ubuntu 17.04 with Unity I could auto-hide the launcher using this command:
dconf write "/org/compiz/profiles/unity/plugins/unityshell/launcher-hide-mode" 1
But this does not work in Ubuntu 17.10 ...
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Notification-bubbles in 17.10 waiting for user-action to autohide. How to disable that function?
On 17.10 gnome-notfication-bubbles are waiting for user-actions to autohide. In my case while listening music with Clementine - 17.10 needs permanent user-activity to show the latest song-notification....
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Ubuntu 16.04 hide top panel/bar [duplicate]
How to remove/hide the entire top panel?
I searched for it but could not find a solution. This thing is really driving my nuts. I could not even imagine that it would be so difficult.
Answers from ...
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How to completely disable unity launcher in Ubuntu 16.04? [duplicate]
I am using plank dock so I want to completely disable the unity launcher in ubuntu 16.04.
I used the autohide method and set the reveal pressure very high. But there are there are two problems with ...
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How to disable running applications in unity launcher?
There are some pinned application in launcher, but if I run an unpinned application from the dash then I want to stop it from appearing in the launcher.
How can I do it?
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How do I get Sublime Text's open directory to show files in GUI?
I have opened sublime editor to edit some files in directory.
It was shown correctly. Than I have pressed something + 'arrow button' and sublime became for half of display. I have tried to fix it, ...
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mate-panel: Finding auto-hide in dconf editor [closed]
Most parameters in the mate-panel properties directly relate in the dconf editor to
/org/mate/panel/toplevels/top/ resp. /bottom/
For example, changing the size gives instant feedback on either ...
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Guess when mouse goes closer to launcher to auto-unhide it
I would use auto-hide feature of the launcher but it's a bit annoying that it doesn't react in a sensitive enough way. Wonder if there is a way to make the launcher appear even before I touch the edge ...
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Hide files in dual boot:
I have windows and ubuntu in the same system. I have hidden some files in the windows, but those files become visible when I use Ubuntu 15.10.
How can I hide those files in both the OS?
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How do I hide the top bar in Ubuntu (GNOME Shell)?
Is there any possibility to autohide the panel in GNOME 3 session?
In picture below I selected the area what I mean.
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How to disable the hiding of scrollbars in version 16.04 and up
Can someone tell me how to disable the new behavior that just started in Ubuntu 15.10, the hiding of the scrollbars.
I can find many references and questions on this, but they are all related to ...
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How to enable -keystroke option of unclutter in unity?
Recently I installed unclutter to hide the mouse pointer while I'm typing, since there is no option in Ubuntu 14.04 to hide mouse pointer. According to the man pages of unclutter ther is a option -...
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How To Hide A Drive In The Navigation Tree When Mounting To Your Home Folder
When I mount my "VM" drive to my home folder it shows in the folder tree and an eject button appears next to it.
When I mount my "VM" drive to my root folder it doesn't show in the folder tree and ...
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Ubuntu 14.04 launcher intellihide [duplicate]
I was wondering is there any way I can set my launcher to intellihide? For example just like "docky", which hides whenever there is a window obstructing the dock?
Thanks,
Nazir
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Totem Hide Title Bar and the controls
How do you Hide the title bar of totem using command line or config file?
I can't seem to hide the title bar.
Also on startup totem --toggle-controls vid.mp4 doesn't work. Only when it is running ...
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How can I hide a running program icon from the notification bar and Launcher?
What can I do for hiding a program icon from the notification bar and Unity Launcher?
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Unity Launcher is hard to access with auto-hide enabled
I just installed Ubuntu 14.04 32 bit on my Acer netbook.
When I use AutoHide it is hard to get the Launcher to pop up, even with the sensitivity turned all the way up! It seems the "sensitivity&...
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Is there a way to configure Unity Panel to autohide? [duplicate]
I'd like Unity Panel to be hidden and only appear when the mouse reaches the top of the screen.
Is there some configuration/plugin/patch/hack or something that would allow me to do such a thing?
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Hiding File and folders, and harddisk partition
How can we hide the file and folders with the terminal commands?
Can we even hide the hard disk partitions?
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After the launcher autohides, windows do not resize top full screen in ubuntu 14.04
After the launcher auto hides the windows do not resize itself to full screen .Instead a rectangular space is left on left side of Ubuntu 14.04.
Like this
How can I fix it so the window resizes to ...
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Docky hides when I maximize a window
Docky hides every time I maximize a window. This is happening since I've upgraded to 14.04
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Autohide launcher is cut off / clipped in 14.04
With autohide enabled on 14.04 (Unity 3d), my launcher ends up cut off, clipped, ie. doesn't come completely back out of hiding. It still functions fine... but it's about 20% still off the edge of ...
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Launcher auto-hide not working Ubuntu 14.04
I'm running Ubuntu 14.04. I generally have the unity launcher in auto-hide mode. Problem starts if the desktop has been locked and then unlocked. Then the unity launcher does not disappear again.
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Top menu bar is sliding down after hover
I would like to hide a top menu bar. I mean when I hover the mouse over it, the top bar will slide down (like the side bar). How can I do this?
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Ubuntu 13.10 - i am running in KIOSK train station public place, but this autoupdate window is annoying every day. How to remove it please? [duplicate]
I need to remove this auto update notification dialog window which is very annoying and scary for public location where people is clicking the system and breaking it down to crash every day.
I tried ...
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Unity launcher won't hide
first question asked on this site. Just did a fresh install of Ubuntu 13.10 from wiping the HDD, had it installed before with the same hardware and didn't have this issue.
For some reason I'm unable ...
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Launcher Auto-hide leaves a dark bar, doesn't display properly
I am using ubuntu 13.10, I have alienware. It has nvidia-optimus but ubuntu is able to boot up if install it in UEFI mode.
I have tried to auto-hide the launcher both with and without bumblebee but ...
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