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rzi

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Registered: 2016-12-08

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Panel hide & show transition

Hello

Is there any way to adjust the way the panel hides and shows when set to "Automatically hide the panel: Alway"? I'm using composition with compiz (mainly for the scale plugin). As it is right now the panel feels very binary when hiding and showing compared to Whisker meny. Whisker menu got a much smoother feeling.

I'm using plank at the bottom of the screen, but xfce panel with a more smooth transition would be the best alternative. Xfce panel is ofc tighter integrated with the the rest of xfce & got lots of plugins etc etc.

Cheers

ToZ

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Registered: 2011-06-02

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Re: Panel hide & show transition

Hello and welcome.
The best that you do with xfce4-panel is to adjust the popup and popdown delays. See: https://git.xfce.org/xfce/xfce4-panel/t … .gtkrc-2.0.

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rzi

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Re: Panel hide & show transition

Thank you for a quick reply ToZ.

I got a bit excited at first as I though I could use all the standard gtk css in .gtkrc-2.0

Do you know if there are any plans to change so the panel can be styled with gtk3 css in the future?

ToZ

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Re: Panel hide & show transition

Yes, the plan is to migrate all of the Xfce components to GTK3. xfce4-panel supports both gtk2 and gtk3 plugins, but itself has yet to be ported to GTK3.

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rzi

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Re: Panel hide & show transition

Ok, thanx for the info. Do you know the time frame until the panel is ported to gtk3?

I did some fiddeling around with the current ways to mod the panel. Managed to do this:  https://youtu.be/MWppJLmAT2U

ToZ

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Re: Panel hide & show transition

Ok, thanx for the info. Do you know the time frame until the panel is ported to gtk3?

Roadmap is here. No confirmed timelines as of yet.

I did some fiddeling around with the current ways to mod the panel. Managed to do this:  https://youtu.be/MWppJLmAT2U

Can you share how you did that?

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rzi

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Re: Panel hide & show transition

Here are the dirty scripts.

I got most of my info from the ppl in this thread http://forum.xfce.org/viewtopic.php?id=8619

xfconf-query is not made for these tricks so the screen sometimes glitches for me
- it affects the icon layout on the desktop.
- panel pushes windows out of its way
-etc etc
But it can probably be refine in many ways

Change values in the scripts to suit your set up

To show the panel

xfconf-query --channel 'xfce4-panel' --property '/panels/panel-1/autohide-behavior' --type int --set 0

for ((i=1; i<100; i=i+10))
do
xfconf-query --channel 'xfce4-panel' --property '/panels/panel-1/background-alpha' --type int --set $i
xfconf-query --channel 'xfce4-panel' --property '/panels/panel-1/size' --type int --set $i / 2
done

To hide the panel

for ((i=100; i>10; i=i-10))
do
xfconf-query --channel 'xfce4-panel' --property '/panels/panel-1/background-alpha' --type int --set $i
xfconf-query --channel 'xfce4-panel' --property '/panels/panel-1/size' --type int --set $i / 2
done

xfconf-query --channel 'xfce4-panel' --property '/panels/panel-1/autohide-behavior' --type int --set 2

Change the hide and show time to a minimum: https://git.xfce.org/xfce/xfce4-panel/t … .gtkrc-2.0