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You can try using dcop and khotkeys to assign keys to certain actions.
start kdcop to see if kicker has a dcop-option for hiding the panel..

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Unfortunenately, I don't know how to do that. Otherwise I could do away with those hide panel buttons.

alt+f2 kdcop
but i did not find any call to hide the panel, yet, something can call it back automaticaly in case you choose auto hide, its not just the pressing of a button
this is a feature I want too

I have been looking for a way to do this too. So far I have:

Inside your home directory is a file ./kde/share/config/kickerrc that stores preferences for the kicker. The menu [MainPanel] has one entry (kde3.5.1)
UserHidden = false
Changing that to true and restarting kicker using 'dcop kicker kicker restart' restarts the kicker minimised. Tonight though I'm going to try to script it using

kwriteconfig --file kickerrc --group MainPanel --key UserHidden --type bool true
dcop kicker kicker configure

Other usefull Kde commands are kstart, kreadconfig, kconf_update (?), kdialog, kfmclient, kioexec, kde-config. See

http://www.sbox.tugraz.at/home/v/voyager…gkde/index.html

Hope this helps someone

ok, I tried my script but it didn't quite work. final script is

kwriteconfig --file kickerrc --group MainPanel --key UserHidden --type bool true
dcop kicker kicker restart

I also found mention that the command:
dcop kicker qt/panel hide
worked but it didn't for me (kde3.5.1).

- the hammer for every screw! It might be a really ugly, quick and quirky solution with xdotool, but at least it gets you to the point:

xdotool mousemove 1680 1050 click 1

Put this into a file, make it executable, and assign it to a key, now you can toggle the kicker with that key.
Of course, adjust the numbers to your screen resolution.

A little improvement:

xdotool mousemove 1680 1050 click 1 mousemove restore