{"id":9657,"date":"2019-12-20T13:17:46","date_gmt":"2019-12-20T13:17:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/?p=9657"},"modified":"2022-04-08T16:15:32","modified_gmt":"2022-04-08T16:15:32","slug":"auto-hide-top-panel-ubuntu-18-04-19-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/2019\/12\/auto-hide-top-panel-ubuntu-18-04-19-10\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Auto-Hide the Top Panel in Ubuntu 18.04\/19.10"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/classic-gnome-icon.png\" alt=\"gnome shell\" width=\"245\" height=\"250\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5741\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This simple tutorial shows how to auto-hide the top bar in Ubuntu 18.04, Ubuntu 19.10 with the default Gnome desktop.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s easy to enable auto-hide the dock (left panel) feature as Ubuntu offers an option in the system settings utility. To run any maximized application window in full-screen like a video player does, you can also make the Gnome top bar auto-hide.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/autohide-toppanel.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"350\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-9658\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This can be done by a Gnome Shell extension called &#8216;Hide Top Bar&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>Open Ubuntu Software, search for and install <code>hide top bar<\/code> gnome shell extension.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/hidetopbar-600x277.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"277\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-9659\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/hidetopbar-600x277.jpg 600w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/hidetopbar-450x208.jpg 450w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/hidetopbar.jpg 746w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><b>UPDATE: For Ubuntu 20.04<\/b>, install the extension by pressing Ctrl+Alt+T to open terminal and run command:<\/p>\n<pre style=\"border:none;\">sudo apt install gnome-shell-extension-autohidetopbar<\/pre>\n<p>Once installed, launch the extension settings either from Ubuntu Software in the install page, or by going to <b>Gnome Tweaks -> Extensions<\/b>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/hide-top-bar-settings-438x450.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"438\" height=\"450\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-9660\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/hide-top-bar-settings-438x450.jpg 438w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/hide-top-bar-settings-584x600.jpg 584w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/hide-top-bar-settings.jpg 678w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 438px) 100vw, 438px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Enjoy!<\/p>\n<h3>Uninstall:<\/h3>\n<p>To remove the extension, simply run command:<\/p>\n<pre>sudo apt remove gnome-shell-extension-autohidetopbar<\/pre>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This simple tutorial shows how to auto-hide the top bar in Ubuntu 18.04, Ubuntu 19.10 with the default Gnome desktop. It&#8217;s easy to enable auto-hide the dock (left panel) feature as Ubuntu offers an option in the system settings utility. To run any maximized application window in full-screen like a video player does, you can [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[1855],"class_list":["post-9657","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-howtos","tag-auto-hide-top-bar"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9657","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9657"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9657\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}