Ubuntu – How to remove bottom panel in Gnome Shell

11.10gnomegnome-shell-extensionnetwork-manager

How do you remove that obnoxious pseudo-invisible bottom panel in Gnome Shell in 11.10? Network Manager is especially annoying, as it will place a large "Network Disconnected!" tab that won't go away until I click on it, as if I wasn't already aware I no longer had an Internet connection.

In 10.04, it used to make a small growl modal in the upper right hand corner that gradually faded away. I really miss that. How do I get that back and permanently remove the bottom panel? I'm aware of various PPAs offering shell extensions, but I haven't been able to find one offering this explicit functionality.

Best Answer

An enterprising developer has claimed to come up with just this solution - for me it does work with a small tweak described below.

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To get this to work with 11.10:

Extract the source.

Rename the folder from gnome-shell-extension-remove-bottom-bar to remove_bottom_bar@k2z.com

Then in this folder edit the file metadata.json

Replace the contents of this file with the following, save and close:

{
    "shell-version": [ "3.2" ],
    "uuid": "remove_bottom_bar@k2z.com",
    "name": "Remove bottom bar",
    "description": "Removes the Message tray (bottom bar). I recommend to use with gnome-shell-gnome2-notifications extention by rcmorano.",
    "url": "http://www.k2z.com", 
    "version": 3
}

Then move the folder to the location ~/.local/share/gnome-shell/extensions

Logout and login and activate the extension using gnome-tweak-tool

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