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gregounours

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Registered: 2011-11-17

Posts: 1

Sensitivity of dock autohide feature

Hi all,
I use the autohide option for the lower panel (the dock) to have more screen real estate. Lately I have been frustrated using Gnumeric because every time I try to change tab (at the bottom of the screen) the dock pops out. I know is OS X there is a way of making the dock less sensitive. It only pops out after a chosen amount of time. Is there an equivalent on XFCE?
Greg

Last edited by gregounours (2011-11-17 02:25:52)

greg-nz

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From: New Zealand

Registered: 2011-11-22

Posts: 12

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Re: Sensitivity of dock autohide feature

I wondered about this myself and found these instructions on an Archlinux site:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Xf … hide_delay

It involves adding some code to a ~/.gtkrc-2.0 file (i.e. a hidden text file in one's home directory). I had to create a .gtkrc-2.0 file in order to do this. You'll need to restart the panel or logout for the change to take effect. (You can, of course, alter the time: 500ms is pretty good.)

There's more information about the .gtkrc-2.0 file here:
http://askubuntu.com/questions/22840/wh … -gtkrc-2-0

I'm no expert, so I can offer no guarantees. But this seems to work. (If the worst comes to the worst, you can always delete the file, if this is all it has in it.)

Last edited by greg-nz (2011-11-27 18:17:32)