by siyb

When hiding a Panel in Gnome, a small part (on my Debian box 6px) were still sticking out. To get rid of this pretty annoying sight you have two choices:

gconftool-2 -s /apps/panel/toplevels/panel_7/auto_hide_size -t int 0

This will set the auto_hide_size value of panel 7 to 0, meaning that 0px of the panel will be displayed when hidden. Alternatively, you may run the graphical gconf editor (gconf-editor) and navigate to the panel’s path and adjust the value of auto_hide_size there, this alternative might be suitable for users that do not know the id of the panel to be adjusted.