How to get rid of the bottom panel in gnome 3 classic session

Question

I know questions that sound like this one have been asked before, but none of the "solutions" are working for me. I am using Gnome Classic option.

• I could not find any extension that does what I want.
• I could not find any entry for gnome-panel in my dconfEditor

Will you please help me.

I installed Gnome 3 using sudo apt-get install ubuntu-gnome-desktop. I am talking of the panel visible in the following picture:

These are the list of extensions I have installed:

Solution 1

• It is the Window List plugin the same one used in Gnome Shell standard session which comes within gnome-shell-extensions package. It's full name:

  [email protected]
  

  Installed in: /usr/share/gnome-shell/extensions/

• What it seems happening is .. the Gnome Classic session use it as a required plugin. So it does ignore disabling it. (Using gnome-tweak-tool)

• To get rid of it, move it somewhere else or delete it

  sudo rm -r /usr/share/gnome-shell/extensions/[email protected]
  

• To re-enable it, copy it back or reinstall gnome-shell-extensions.

  sudo apt-get install --reinstall gnome-shell-extensions
  

Solution 2

To check the current panels:

$ gsettings get org.gnome.gnome-panel.layout toplevel-id-list
['top-panel-0', 'bottom-panel-0']

Set the panel which you want to stay visible with ^{Tried in Ubuntu 12.04}:

$ gsettings set org.gnome.gnome-panel.layout toplevel-id-list "['top-panel-0']"

which will leave you with only the top-panel like you see in the snapshot below.

(With that done I wasn't able to Super + W or Alt + tab the minimized windows. But I haven't checked with other dock apps.. I suppose they'll work.)

To use both the panels again just run:

$ gsettings set org.gnome.gnome-panel.layout toplevel-id-list "['top-panel-0', 'bottom-panel-0']"

Solution 3

Apparently GNOME shows an option to delete panels on Alt + right click. On some machines it can be Alt + Super (the "windows" key) + right click. A menu should appear with the option to delete. If not, then I'm sorry.

EDIT: Didn't see the comment chain where you said that. weird stuff.

Solution 4

onwards ubuntu 17.xx

just rename the metadata.json file in

/usr/share/gnome-shell/extensions/[email protected]$ 

and restart the system it will be disabled.

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Comments

[muru]

Now that you have added the bit about "GNOME Classic", I'm pretty sure Sneetsher's answer is the right one.

[Chani]

Can you tell me how to install it ?

[Chani]

naah, thats not working

[αғsнιη]

Doesn't work on Ubuntu 14.04. error: No such schema 'org.gnome.gnome-panel.layout'

[αғsнιη]

Disabling it didn't work. I deleted the extension and worked.

[biocyberman]

I installed gconf-editor but could not locate the entry to hide the buttom panel. This trick works perfectly. Thanks

[Codex24]

As of Ubuntu 16.04, Gnome desktop (no Unity), simply start the Tweak Tool and disable and/or remove the extension, "Window List".