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FernandoBasso

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From: Brazil

Registered: 2010-10-27

Posts: 101

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Gnome3 hide top bar (IMPOSSIBLE) / set default applications (SOLVED)

How do I auto hide the top bar?

How do I set the default applications for opening hyper links?

Thanks in advance.

Last edited by FernandoBasso (2011-05-04 02:13:08)

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penguin.powered

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Registered: 2010-01-20

Posts: 9

Re: Gnome3 hide top bar (IMPOSSIBLE) / set default applications (SOLVED)

Not sure if you can auto-hide the top bar, but to edit the default applications go to System Settings > System Info -> Default Applications

fzzbt

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Registered: 2011-02-19

Posts: 17

Re: Gnome3 hide top bar (IMPOSSIBLE) / set default applications (SOLVED)

i wish i could autohide it too!

so annoying, taking up valuable space.

el_zoona

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From: Argentina

Registered: 2008-02-01

Posts: 58

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Re: Gnome3 hide top bar (IMPOSSIBLE) / set default applications (SOLVED)

Indeed! For making it small you can edit the theme's css (/usr/share/gnome-shell/theme/gnome-shell.css). Find the panel id:

#panel {
    color: #ffffff;
    background-color: black;
    border-image: url("panel-border.svg") 1;
    font-size: 8.5pt;
    height: 1.86em;

}

Then just edit and save. You can also edit the size of the applications grid's icons.

BTW, display:none does not work :-P.

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FernandoBasso

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From: Brazil

Registered: 2010-10-27

Posts: 101

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Re: Gnome3 hide top bar (IMPOSSIBLE) / set default applications (SOLVED)

Actually, my problem with default applications was that firefox simply
was not showing up in Default Applications -> Web.

Then, I added the following to the MymeType line in
/usr/share/applications/firefox.desktop:

x-scheme-handler/http;x-scheme-handler/https;

Now firefox is indeed is showing up so that I can actually choose it.

As for the top bar, I agree that it is a loss of useful space. The same holds
true for nautilus, in my humble opinion. Look, for example, in the screenshot,
where I put those two 'strokes' (sorry for my English). That is unacceptable.

http://img713.imageshack.us/f/nautilusspaceloss.png/

And why is the title bar so thick? More space loss.

Anyway, I kind of liked Gnome 3. Nice ideas. Just a few things
that perhaps could be a little different. Nonetheless, I'll stick with Opebox for the
time being.

Last edited by FernandoBasso (2011-05-05 15:50:43)

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