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Questions tagged [autohide]

This tag could be used on questions about auto-hiding panels, launchers etcetera, on the occasion of e.g. a maximized window.

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Can auto-hide for the application menu be turned off in Unity?

Will there be a way to disable auto-hide behavior of global application menu in Unity. While I would prefer to have this behavior disabled by default (as it is bad UX), it looks like it's here to stay, so I'm wondering if, as a user, I will be able…
sect2k
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Hiding the sidebar in Ubuntu

I have two questions : First, I wanted to hide Ubuntu’s side-bar, so I set the settings in appearance to 'autohide'. The side bar did indeed disappear but when I roll over the left side, the side bar don't appear again. So, I am using a virtual box.…
epsilones
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How to autohide the Launcher

In Unity there is a Launcher on the left. One can easily change settings so that it hides automatically and appears only if the mouse cursor hits the left border of the screen (this is what I did). Today, I pressed some button accidentally and the…
Roman
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How do I autohide the top panel in Unity?

When windows are not maximized, the top panel is basically wasted space for me in Unity. Is there a way to make it autohide? i.e. make it appear on mouse over.
Mike L
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Is there a way to configure Unity Panel to autohide?

I'd like Unity Panel to be hidden and only appear when the mouse reaches the top of the screen. Is there some configuration/plugin/patch/hack or something that would allow me to do such a thing?
opensas
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How do I hide the top bar in Ubuntu (GNOME Shell)?

Is there any possibility to autohide the panel in GNOME 3 session? In picture below I selected the area what I mean.
FieryCod
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Auto-hiding the dock covers the desktop icons

As in this question, I found that when I set "Settings -> Dock -> Auto-hide the Dock" to "On", the dock almost completely covers the leftmost column of desktop icons: This makes it very difficult to see or select those icons. (I can manually drag…
tparker
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Launcher auto-hide not working Ubuntu 14.04

I'm running Ubuntu 14.04. I generally have the unity launcher in auto-hide mode. Problem starts if the desktop has been locked and then unlocked. Then the unity launcher does not disappear again.
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Why can't the Unity panel be hidden?

What intrinsic purpose does the static unity panel hold for the OS? There has to be a great reason for this thing to HAVE to be here. It ONLY goes away in fullscreen apps and I can't use everything fullscreen Why can the unity panel not be hidden? …
newboldrob
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How to disable the hiding of scrollbars in version 16.04 and up

Can someone tell me how to disable the new behavior that just started in Ubuntu 15.10, the hiding of the scrollbars. I can find many references and questions on this, but they are all related to removing the actual overlay scrollbars and replacing…
L. D. James
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What exactly do dash-to-dock intellihide and intellihide-mode dconf variables do on GNOME 3?

At least since 18.04 Bionic Beaver, maybe previously, dash-to-dock GNOME extension was defined as system default dock application and its settings are stored through dconf. One of those got me confused. The available value description and summary…
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Is it possible to set the Launcher to autohide on only one display?

I would like to access the launcher on my smaller notebook panel without wasting precious space. As space is not an issue on my external panel, there's no reason to autohide the launcher there. Is there any way of setting up a hybrid launcher…
Glutanimate
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Unity Launcher is hard to access with auto-hide enabled

I just installed Ubuntu 14.04 32 bit on my Acer netbook. When I use AutoHide it is hard to get the Launcher to pop up, even with the sensitivity turned all the way up! It seems the "sensitivity" has to do with how fast the mouse moves to the left…
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Is there a way to hide & reveal the launcher at will with the press of a key?

Possible Duplicate: Is it possible to force the Unity launcher to hide? Or to toggle hide/unhide with a keyboard shortcut? I'm using Ubuntu 12.04 with the default Unity desktop environment. I'm aware of all the keyboard shortcuts that relate to…
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How can I change the "reveal pressure" to show Ubuntu Dock when it's (auto-) hidden?

Previously, on older Ubuntu releases with Unity I could manually set the "Launcher Reveal Pressure" to increase or decrease the sensitivity to unhide the Unity Launcher when it's hidden using the CompizConfig Settings Manager (refer to this…
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