Ubuntu – way to hide the Messaging Tray in GNOME Shell

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I find the Messaging Tray (the bottom bar) in GNOME Shell rather inconvenient. I'm looking for a way to disable it. KRSNA 2 ZED seems to have written an extension for doing just that, but I don't know how to install it. Any help would be appreciated.

I'm using Ubuntu 11.10 32-bit.

Best Answer

I just managed to hide the messaging tray. Here are the steps I followed:

wget http://aur.archlinux.org/packages/gn/gnome-shell-extension-remove-bottom-bar/gnome-shell-extension-remove-bottom-bar.tar.gz
tar -zxf gnome-shell-extension-remove-bottom-bar.tar.gz
cd gnome-shell-extension-remove-bottom-bar/
mkdir -p .local/share/gnome-shell/extensions/remove_bottom_bar@k2z.com
cp extension.js .local/share/gnome-shell/extensions/remove_bottom_bar@k2z.com/
cp metadata.json .local/share/gnome-shell/extensions/remove_bottom_bar@k2z.com/

Now press Alt + F2 and enter r. After that, open gnome-tweak-tool Install gnome-tweak-tool and turn on the extension 'Remove bottom bar extension'.

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There is an extension in the official GNOME extension website that lets you disable the messaging tray. You only have to download it from the site and turn it on in the gnome-tweak-tool to disable the corner.

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