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I'm looking for a way to quickly toggle the autohide of the taskbar in Cinnamon (running on a netbook).

Would it be possible to do it either directly using a shortcut, or maybe scripting and then keybinding it?

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Copy and paste following script in gedit:

#!/bin/bash
state=$(gsettings get org.cinnamon panels-autohide)
if [[ $state = "['1:true', '2:false']" ]]; then
    gsettings set org.cinnamon panels-autohide "['1:false', '2:true']"
else
    gsettings set org.cinnamon panels-autohide "['1:true', '2:false']"
fi

... and save as panel-autohide.sh in your home directory.

Then open System Settings -> Keyboard -> Keyboard shortcuts -> Custom shortcuts.

Click on Add custom shortcut. Fill the Name section with Toggle Panel Autohide. In Command section, browse and select panel-autohide.sh.

Under "Keyboard bindings" double click on unassigned, and press keyboard shortcut for this command. I use Ctrl + F12 as keyboard shortcut.

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  • exactly was I was looking for :)
    – AdrieanKhisbe
    Jan 18, 2015 at 10:15
  • actually this doesn't work in the latest cinnamon, so I suggest to use 'Intelligently hide panel' option.
    – comepradz
    Jun 5, 2015 at 19:48
  • my problem hear is that it needs to be executed as system user even when I execute the script as system user
    – Fabrizio Bertoglio
    Jul 12, 2017 at 9:19
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I use Cinnamon 2.0 and it has this feature by default.

System Settings -> Panel (for some reason I have 2 version of System settings in my App launcher. I used the first one to get the Advanced Mode)

System Settings

Check Auto-hide panel

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Hope it helps !

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you can look at this page https://github.com/linuxmint/Cinnamon/issues/1754 see the comments given by askun

Just in case you weren't aware, you can toggle the system tray completely off in Cinnamon Settings > Applets. This doesn't offer the more finite control over individual applications like you are requesting, though, just "all on" or "all off" as far as I can tell...

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    please dont make your answer only based on a link. do your best writing the key points and only then use the link as reference. if the link ever gets broken, so does your whole answer.
    – Lorenzo Von Matterhorn
    Apr 7, 2013 at 15:06

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