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Deepblue

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Monday, February 14th 2005, 11:38pm

How to hide controlbar permanant & Clear up desktop possible?

Hello geeks,

Just 2 simple questions. Is it possible to hide the controlbar all the time? I've designed a Karamba-theme and so i don't need it any longer. And its a little bit annoying when the bar always pops up if my mousecursor gets to the bottom of screen.
So is there an (easy) way to hide the bar all the time?

And the second question. Is there a possibilty to minimize all apllications on a desktop, like Win2K and XP offers? Is there just a simple command for that, it would be great :)


Thanks for helping :)

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Thursday, February 17th 2005, 12:18am

RE: How to hide controlbar permanant & Clear up desktop possible?

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Originally posted by Deepblue
Is it possible to hide the controlbar all the time? I've designed a Karamba-theme and so i don't need it any longer. And its a little bit annoying when the bar always pops up if my mousecursor gets to the bottom of screen.
So is there an (easy) way to hide the bar all the time?


Do you mean the panel (a.k.a. kicker)? If that's the case then see the entry "Getting Rid of The Panel": http://wiki.kde.org/tiki-index.php?page=…=panel#id227085



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And the second question. Is there a possibilty to minimize all apllications on a desktop, like Win2K and XP offers? Is there just a simple command for that, it would be great :)

You mean besides clicking the desktop button on the panel? I've once seen a dcop command to "click" it programmatically by activating it from a command line but I wasn't able to find it any more. Since you asked how to remove the panel altogether this would probably not have helped you anyway, though...

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Thursday, February 17th 2005, 12:35am

Hello and thx for your replay,

I've now fixed all 2 problems...

The first one with getting rid of the panel not by your way... Yes it works, BUT... You can't acess the K-Menu any longer with this method, because kicker isn't active any more.

So i solved it that way: "dcop kicker Panel setPanelSize 0" at Kde-Startup

And clearing the desktop, i didn't found it as a dcop call (goggled over 2h), but theres a function in SuperKaramba...

This post has been edited 1 times, last edit by "Deepblue" (Feb 17th 2005, 12:41am)

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Thursday, February 17th 2005, 4:49pm

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The first one with getting rid of the panel not by your way... Yes it works, BUT... You can't acess the K-Menu any longer with this method, because kicker isn't active any more.

A problem of SuperKaramba, it wants to replace Kicker but not implement the necessary functionality, in this case the freedesktop.org menu specification.

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And clearing the desktop, i didn't found it as a dcop call (goggled over 2h), but theres a function in SuperKaramba...


Should be here somewhere in one of the forums, I think I must have posted it at least twice, but I think I can post it a third time as well:

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dcop kicker $(dcop kicker qt objects | grep ShowDesktop | head -n 1 | sed "s#(# #g" | awk '{ print $1; }') toggle


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