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Turning of the desktop panels. ALL OF THEM

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Sunday, November 28th 2004, 6:31am

Turning of the desktop panels. ALL OF THEM

I would like to turn of all the desktop panels. I installed ksmoothdock and I want to turn off the default "startmenu bar" for lack of a better word.

This has got to be easy. Please can someone help me?

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Sunday, November 28th 2004, 7:45am

Re: Turning of the desktop panels. ALL OF THEM

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I would like to turn of all the desktop panels. I installed ksmoothdock and I want to turn off the default "startmenu bar" for lack of a better word.

This has got to be easy. Please can someone help me?
See http://wiki.kde.org/tiki-index.php?page=Secret+Config+Settings
"Getting Rid of The Panel"

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Sunday, November 28th 2004, 8:06am

Thanks, wiki.kde.org is now added to my bookmarks.

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Monday, November 29th 2004, 12:00am

I did that however it does not work.
In panel desktop under "[Desktop Entry]" I added "Hidden=True"

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Monday, November 29th 2004, 7:30am

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I did that however it does not work.
In panel desktop under "[Desktop Entry]" I added "Hidden=True"

I tried it and it worked as advertised:
I created a new file under ~/.kde/share/autostart/panel.desktop that only contains the lines

[Desktop Entry]
Hidden=True

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Tuesday, November 30th 2004, 6:39am

I apologize. I was not clear.

[Desktop Entry]
Hidden=True

Does work but now I when I click the KDE (logo) button on the ksmoothdock nothing happens. I would like the button to still work but I want the annoying bar-panel that shows up in the stock setup to disappear.

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Tuesday, November 30th 2004, 7:31am

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I apologize. I was not clear.

[Desktop Entry]
Hidden=True

Does work but now I when I click the KDE (logo) button on the ksmoothdock nothing happens. I would like the button to still work but I want the annoying bar-panel that shows up in the stock setup to disappear.
And if the panel (a.k.a. kicker) is there in addition to ksmoothdock then this button works? Strange, sounds like a bug to me. Why should a kicker replacement depend on kicker running?

Sorry, no idea. I use the stock panel so I cannot comment on KSmoothDock. If you don't get any other answers here you could talk to the author of ksmoothdock... after you have made extra sure you have read any documentation on ksmoothdock there is, if any...

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Thursday, December 2nd 2004, 2:34pm

Hi there!

I am having the same problem over here!

Ksmoothdock starts, panel does not appear thanks to the panel.desktop - file

But I cannot access the K-Menu using KSmoothDock .. clicking on the penguin does nothing but flashing the icon ... as feedback of pressing LMB..

Can someone tell how to make K-Menu cpome back again?

Thanks, Sascha

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Monday, December 13th 2004, 8:20am

Why don't you simply make the main panel as small as possible (i.e. 1%), hide both left and right hide buttons, remove all components, and make it transparent? This way you should be able to make the main panel completely invisible, as if you got rid of it.
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