XFCE 4.2 RC1 Question..

[djlotek]

Ok.. finally got it all set up. I am coming from a *box/kahakai usage background, and the bars are a little overkill for me. How to I remove both bars, the taskbar on top, and iconbar on bottom. The settings for these only allow me to change size and position, but wont let me remove them.

I love the look of xfce, and the pretty dropshadows, but want to keep it minimal. I would rather use a minimal bar such as pypanel like i did in previous WM's.

[bernath]

comment out/change respective lines in the file ~/.local/etc/xdg/xfce4/xinitrc it may be located somwhere else on your machine depending where you installed it (might be ~/.config/xfce*)

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...
xftaskbar4&
xfcalendar &
xfce4-iconbox &
...
panel=`which xfce4-panel`
...

if you use xfce-sessions, have a look at ~/.local/etc/xdg/xfce4-session/xfce4-session as well

do you only want use the xfwm4 and xfdesktop?

[djlotek]

No i am not currently using xfce-sessions.

I have commented out the xfcetaskbar4& entry from /etc/xdg/xfce/xinitrc, but this seems to have no effect. The taskbar still exists. I then removed the line completely, and this did nothing as well. Very strange..

[bernath]

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$ killall xftaskbar4

should solve this temporary. but i guess this is not the solution you are looking for.

i think /etc/xdg/xfce/xinitrc will only be loaded when you set XSESSION to use xfce in /etc/rc.conf. look for xfce config files in your home directory:

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$ cd
$ find | grep xfce

you say, you do not want to use the panel, the taskbar, the iconbox and no sessions. so you get the xfdesktop (background and rightclick menu) plus the xfwm. what you could do then is: running these explicitly from your ~/.xinitrc.

sorry that i cannot give you better help for now
gabor

[bernath]

i have better idea. get that xinitrc, whereever it is, and copy it to ~/.xinitrc. now edit it according your needs, comment out the taskbar line. then restart xfce.

gabor

[GenKreton]

On a related note:

Is there any way to make them disappear completely instead of leaving the thin, yet annoying, white bar?

[Veto]

I don't know if there is a way to make them disappear completley when hidden outside of not starting them.

I'm trying to get a unified bar ala KDE so I don't have to have one at top and one at bottom. Any ideas on that?

[wong]

I don't know if there is a way to make them disappear completley when hidden outside of not starting them.

I'm trying to get a unified bar ala KDE so I don't have to have one at top and one at bottom. Any ideas on that?

use normal xfce4-panel and taskbar plugin - see xfce goodies or in portage xfce-extra/xfce4-taskbar

[bernath]

i have been experimenting quite a lot to get the panel completely hidden, but i could not manage it. i use the xfce4-iconbox instead of the taskbar, which i can rightclick and close, then restart from the "run program" dialog. well, this is far away from autohide :)

[djlotek]

This may or may not be a solution for some of you.

I didnt originally plan on using sessions, but this seems to have taken care of my issue with removing both bars..

1. Start xfce using the "startxfce4" command.. Once loaded, right click and go to Settings > Sessions and Startup Settings.

2. Enable the "Automatically Save Session on Logout" option. I also disabled "Prompt on Logout" as I do not want to be bothered with a message when I quit X.

3. Open a terminal, and do "killall xfce-panel" and "killall xftaskbar4". I wanted to remove both to keep things as minimal as possible, but only kill the ones *you* dont want to load the next time you start.

4. Quit XFCE nicely, by right clicking and choosing "Quit".

Start XFCE again using the "startxfce4" command, and whatever you killed in step 3 should not show this time.

For those of you who prefer a user defined .xinitrc and like to start things using the "startx" command, dump the following in there...

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#!/bin/sh
exec /usr/bin/startxfce4

Remeber to add your desklets or any other junk you need to load on startup..

Also remember that youre using sessions now, so any windows you leave open when you kill XFCE will be there when you start it back up.