Auto-hide in gnome-panel

[André Klitzing]

My gnome-panel doesn't disappear although I checked the option "Auto-hide" in the Panel settings. I don't want the main menu in the panel so I open it with <Alt><F1>.
I think this is the problem.

If I start e.g. firefox and move the mouse over the panel and then away, the panel does not disappear anymore.
I can reproduce it on another system.

Gnome-Panel: 2.14.1-0ubuntu13

Steps to reproduce:
#1 Set gnome-panel to "Auto-Hide"
#2 Remove "main-menu" and "menu-bar" from gnome-panel
#3 Press <Alt><F1> to open main menu - Menu opens on screen
#4 Close main menu and move mouse to gnome-panel
#5 Panel doesn't hide

Expected:
Panel should hide...

[Daniel Holbach (dholbach)]

Thanks for your bug report. Confirmed with final Edgy.

Somebody of the team should forward the report upstream.

[André Klitzing (misery)]

I added it to gnome's bugzilla.
I checked for duplicate bugreport and there are some bugs that sounds like this one. But they aren't the same.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

not a bugzilla bug, the gnome-panel task is enough

[André Klitzing (misery)]

Seems to be fixed in feisty. I don't have the problem anymore.

[mithras (jsluiman)]

I think it isn't solved. I have a small panel with only notification area, gpilotd and volume control. Right mouse on the beryl-manager popups a context menu, and the panel won't hide anymore.

A click on the panel makes it not auto-hiding anymore...

[André Klitzing (misery)]

Maybe it's another problem... but feel free to reopen it. :-)

[André Klitzing (misery)]

Bug Buddy: Invalid

[Dusan Maliarik (dusan-maliarik)]

I can confirm this behaviour in hardy. I don't know if it caused by gnome menu, but sometimes the panel refuses to hide, sometimes it helps to click/focus it and then move focus away. then the panel hides. but sometimes it won't help. this should be fixed as this is basic optional behaviour one would expect from all panels, docks, etc.

[Alex Launi (alexlauni)]

this is still happeneing on a fully up to day intrepid, it really sucks. is there someone else we should be bugging about this bug?

[daqron (daqron)]

I can confirm Alex's comment that this continues to be a problem in Intrepid. It doesn't appear to be dependent on the existence/non-existence of the Main Menu in the panel. "killall gnome-panel" resets the panels and restores auto-hide temporarily, but the problem recurs.

[jastonas (jastonas)]

True that! Same problem here in intrepid..
only solution for now is hide buttons allong with auto hide enabled so that maximized windows stay maximized at all times..

[daqron (daqron)]

Here is some additional clarification on this. The original bug report captures the immediate cause of the panel not auto-hiding:

"#3 Press <Alt><F1> to open main menu - Menu opens on screen"

Alt+F1 seems to negate the ability of the panel to auto-hide. A simple workaround, until this is fixed, is to add the Cairo/Ubuntu menu back into your panel. By default, the Super (Windows) key opens that menu (if not, you can set it up in System > Preferences > Keyboard Shortcuts). Using that, instead of Alt+F1, to access your applications menu will not disable auto-hiding, and in fact will not even cause the panel to unhide at all. I've been using this method for over a month now on Intrepid with great success and no headaches.

A bug fix is obviously still in order but I thought folks might find this method helpful in the mean time.

[paperfary (paperfairy17)]

While this fix does work, (and I am, for some reason, unable to set that menu to open solely with "Super") this bug still exists in Karmic.

[dnquark (leo-alekseyev+launchpad)]

Autohide seems to break after a short while for me too on Karmic. it's really annoying!

[Santiago Roland (santiago-roland)]

I'm having this problem. I installed karmic amd64 up to date and set bottom panel to 27 px. and custom background image, black DMZ pointer (in appearence) and autohide gnome panel.... the panels hide... but when i go to the bottom it won't come up! i have to put the mouse in one of the bottom corners of the screen to get the panel up again... any helps?

regards,.

[sssent (sssent)]

This bug is still around in Maverick. Adding a Gnome menu applet still fixes it though.

I think this is not a duplicate of #58179. With context menus I can make the panel hide again by clicking on it. After using the Alt+F1 menu (without the applet) the only way to hide the panel again is killing gnome-panel.

[Fhernd (fernd-ortiz)]

I am experimenting this issue under Linux Mint 10. I use this command at the moment: "killall gnome-panel"

Thanks for this tip daqron.

So long!