Remove All Gnome Panels

Question

I'm using xmonad with xmobar, but I still use Gnome for some system services. I would like to remove all of the Gnome panels since I don't use them. I can remove all but the last panel. The "Delete This Panel" is gray out on the last one.

I've tried "killall gnome-panel" but it just pops back up. I've also tried auto-hiding and setting it to transparent. That's pretty close but still a little annoying to have something there which sometimes blocks clicks for the bottom part of the screen.

Is there any way to kill gnome-panel or remove the panels?

Answer 1

You can use the following:

sudo mv /usr/bin/gnome-panel ~/.panel_backup

Answer 2

The "cleanest" way i found to do this is to use the gconf configuration tool. Run gconf-editor, navigate to /desktop/gnome/session, and remove panel from the required_components_list key, so it just contains windowmanager,filemanager.

You can also leave the panel in this key, and change the panel key value in /desktop/gnome/session/required_components to xmobar, so gnome-session will automatically start xmobar at session opening.

If you don't have gconf-editor installed, you can also set the key by running gconftool-2 --set desktop/gnome/session/required_components_list --type string "windowmanager,filemanager" or such, see man gconftool-2