LXpanel alternative - need autohide?

[mchlbk]

Hi,

Im on a 9" screen netbook and need a panel that can autohide which LXpanel cant.

Is there an alternative panel? And how is it installed in stead of LXpanel?

[maces]

Hi

Please try lxpanel from svn, autohide is implemented there. You'll find instructions in the forum.

maces

[mchlbk]

"svn"? Whats that..?

[maces]

Hi

svn is Subversion. You have to install it, consult your distros wiki for that. With the following command you'll get the source code of LXDE:

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svn co https://lxde.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/lxde/trunk/ ./lxde

Now you have to compile the applications "menu-cache", "lxmenu-data" and "lxpanel".Please also consult the wiki of your distro about compiling! Now you have to run the following commands in each of the three directorys. (You can copy them to and temporary directory for that):

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./autogen.sh
./configure --prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc
make
sudo make install

After that exit lxpanel and restart it, but only if it compiles successfully!

If this doesn't work please give some more informations:
* the error message itself
* your distro and version
* the wikipage you used as instruction

maces

[mchlbk]

Thanks for helping out - I really appreciate it!

[sublime]

Actually lxpanel has something much better than auto-hide. It has the ability to sit on top of your windows (by unticking 'reserve space for panel' in the options).

What I do (on my Eee 1000H) is to put the lxpanel at the top of the screen. Make it the same height as my title bar and then make it the right width (and center it) so that I can see the min/max/close buttons. After this lxpanel takes up the space that the title bar uses, which is wasted anyway, since all it does is tell you what the application is (which we already know).

[sublime]

Here is a screenshot of how it looks.

[mchlbk]

This is brilliant - didn't know this feature! Thanks for sharing.

[mchlbk]

Btw: If you use Tiny Menu and then move all items from your nav bar to the menu bar you can remove the nav bar and have a little more space for browsing. I remove the status bar as well, as most of the features I need have an icon to put in the nav bar / menu bar. Normally I use Hide Caption too - but it's not supported i FF 3.5 yet.