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Help with hiding desktop panel
Posted: Thu May 11, 2017 10:07 am
by Xeon5
Hi guys, new here and new too Linux aswell.
I am currently working on a minimal desktop using Debian "Jessie" with LXDE and want to basically just have a desktop with short cuts and no panel/start bar.
Is it possible to set the panel to never show at the bottom via command line?
Re: Help with hiding desktop panel
Posted: Thu May 11, 2017 3:21 pm
by Rex Bouwense
Welcome to the LXDE forums. I moved your post to the LXPanel forum which is a more appropriate place for the topic. If you want to hide the LXPanel, right click any open space on the panel and choose Panel Settings. Open the last tab Advanced and check Minimize panel when not in use. That should do the trick.
Re: Help with hiding desktop panel
Posted: Thu May 11, 2017 3:31 pm
by Xeon5
Thanks Rex.
I need to do this via command line so that I can set it to be removed during a clean install. Since the post I have found out that I can just apt-get remove the lxpanel application which did the trick.
Not sure if it is linked but is it possible to disable the right click menu on the desktop as well?
Re: Help with hiding desktop panel
Posted: Thu May 11, 2017 4:45 pm
by drooly
Xeon5 wrote:Not sure if it is linked but is it possible to disable the right click menu on the desktop as well?
i think it is possible with a workaround:
a) right-click the desktop => desktop preferences => Advanced => CHECK show menus provided by window managers etc.
b) edit ~/.config/openbox/lxde-rc.xml and change
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<mousebind button="Right" action="Press">
<action name="ShowMenu">
<menu>root-menu</menu>
</action>
</mousebind>
to
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<mousebind button="Right" action="Press">
<action name="Execute">
<command>true</command>
</action>
</mousebind>
c) log out/in
not tested.
Re: Help with hiding desktop panel
Posted: Fri May 12, 2017 8:43 am
by Xeon5
Thanks, I will test that and let you know
Re: Help with hiding desktop panel
Posted: Fri May 12, 2017 1:49 pm
by Xeon5
So i tried the code mentioned above:
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But when I right click it still shows the menu:
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Any suggestions on how to disable these?
Re: Help with hiding desktop panel
Posted: Sat May 13, 2017 1:13 pm
by drooly
you missed step a):
drooly wrote:a) right-click the desktop => desktop preferences => Advanced => CHECK show menus provided by window managers etc.
Re: Help with hiding desktop panel
Posted: Mon May 15, 2017 11:39 am
by Xeon5
Apologies for the confusion. I need to be able to do all this in command line as I want to create a restricted enviroment. Is there anyway to change that in the back end?
Re: Help with hiding desktop panel
Posted: Tue May 16, 2017 6:26 pm
by seppalta
Not sure what you are trying to do, but removing pcmanfm's role in controlling the desktop will get rid of the pcmanfm-right-click menu. To do this add the following entry to
~/.config/lxsession/LXDE/autostart, presuming you have lxsession and the full lxde desktop installed:
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@pcmanfm --desktop-off --profile LXDE
Otherwise, try adding the command to the Openbox autostart file.