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rolgiati

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From: Asuncion, Paraguay

Registered: 2013-06-08

Posts: 36

Inhibiting the panel ? (SOLVED)

In the same vein as my recent post on preventing the desktop menu from appearing when  right-clicking on the desktop, is there a way to have no panel ?

( The plan is for boxes in self-service in a library, that will have a reduced number of applications launched from desktop-launcher icons, and those protected from modifications with (as root) chattr +i ~/.config/xfce4/desktop/icons*
and chattr +i ~/desktop/* )

Last edited by rolgiati (2018-02-21 16:39:31)

ToZ

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From: Canada

Registered: 2011-06-02

Posts: 11,492

Re: Inhibiting the panel ? (SOLVED)

Not sure if you can just uninstall the package if you don't need it - depends on how your distro handles it with dependencies. The other option is to override the executable. Create a /usr/local/bin/xfce4-panel executable file with the following content:

#!/bin/sh
exit 0

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rolgiati

Member

From: Asuncion, Paraguay

Registered: 2013-06-08

Posts: 36

Re: Inhibiting the panel ? (SOLVED)

Thanks.

First one not applicable, as un-installing xfce4-panel caused a number of others to be pulled too, including Thunar and PCmanFM  ;-3(

Second one, sadly, did not work; panel still came up after boot.

But it gave me the idea for a third one that worked:

Wrote a new xfce4-panel as per your advice, but plonked it in /usr/bin after doing there a mv xfce4-panel xfce4-panel.bak

I will now protect the new xfce4-panel with chattr +i to ensure it does not get replaced in a future software update.

Thanks again.