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whoops

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Registered: 2009-03-19

Posts: 891

Hide + unhide kde/plasma5 panel with script?

Hi!

My plasma panel is sort of annoying and always gets in the way (I have it on auto-hide, but it pops up for a few seconds every time after changing desktops and also often when I try to click on the bottom browser bar from firefox noscript and overshoot a bit -.-" ).

Is there a way to hide + unhide it with with a script (so I can bind it to one of my extra mouse keys with xbinkey and enable it ONLY when I really want it?)?

I tried to use xdotool, but the panel doesn't seem to have a distinct name or class (only the "plasmashell" class which it seems to share with 13 other "windows"). From what I can tell, it's not even a proper "panel" or "dock" as far as window manipulation tools are concerned?

Last edited by whoops (2018-09-30 12:55:26)

whoops

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Registered: 2009-03-19

Posts: 891

Re: Hide + unhide kde/plasma5 panel with script?

Finally figured out something for a workaround:

#!/bin/zsh
# Set panel visibility to "Windows can go below" in panel settings
# Find out Panel Dimensions with (clicking on it after):
# $ xdotool selectwindow getwindowgeometry
PANELDIMENSIONS="1920x86"
# Does conky too because why not
KILLCONKY=true

# find + rename panel on first run only
xdotool search ItsTehPanel || {
	PANELID=$(
		xdotool search Plasma | 
		while read WID; do 
			xdotool getwindowgeometry $WID | 
			grep -B2 " $PANELDIMENSIONS$"; done | 
			grep Window | 
			sed "s/.* //"
		)
	xdotool set_window --name "ItsTehPanel" $PANELID
	} 

[ -f /tmp/panelswitch ] || echo 1 > /tmp/panelswitch ]

if grep -q 1 /tmp/panelswitch; then {
	xdotool search ItsTehPanel windowunmap
	$KILLCONKY && killall conky
	echo 0 > /tmp/panelswitch
} else {
	xdotool search ItsTehPanel windowmap
	$KILLCONKY && conky&disown
	echo 1 > /tmp/panelswitch
}
fi

... still looking for a cleaner solution.

edit: gave up looking for a cleaner solution => solved.
edit: looking again because xdotool has gotten extremely slow somehow T_T

Last edited by whoops (2018-09-30 12:56:06)