How to hide top bar in Ubuntu 18.04?

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How can I hide top bar in Gnome 3.28 Ubuntu 18.04?

How can the hide-top-bar extension be installed?

score 43 · Accepted Answer · edited Jul 14 '19 at 07:26

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First open the terminal and install chrome-gnome-shell package:

sudo apt install chrome-gnome-shell

Then install one of these extensions:

Finally, head over to the GNOME Extensions page for the "Hide Top Bar" extension and enable the ON/OFF switch for the extension to install.

edited Jul 14 '19 at 07:26

Gaurang Tandon

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answered Apr 29 '18 at 23:47

Eskander Bejaoui

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The particular "extension to install" is called "Hide Top Bar" (that's obvious from the link, but not from the text of the answer). – jez Apr 01 '19 at 19:29
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It blows my mind that you have to use a browser plugin to interact with GNOME plugin options. We really need a command line method for this kind of stuff. snaps broke it apparently: https://askubuntu.com/questions/1034688/url-extensions-gnome-org-for-managing-gnome-extensions-not-working-in-any-browse ... – Ciro Santilli OurBigBook.com Oct 25 '21 at 14:02

score 30 · Answer 2 · edited Aug 03 '20 at 03:34

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For reference, install gnome-tweaks and run:

sudo apt install gnome-shell-extension-autohidetopbar

Then log out and back in. The option to auto hide the top bar will be available from gnome-tweaks tool in the extensions section.

edited Aug 03 '20 at 03:34

Eliah Kagan

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answered Mar 07 '19 at 20:21

Ali

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This method did not work on Ubuntu 21.10 unfortunately. – Ciro Santilli OurBigBook.com Oct 25 '21 at 14:04

score 11 · Answer 3 · answered May 19 '18 at 04:43

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The simplest and working way I found is to install the Dash-to-Panel GNOME extension. Works like a charm.

Dash to Panel Extension

You can toggle it from the browser itself.

answered May 19 '18 at 04:43

Mihir Kumar Jha

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I like this answer the most, as hiding the topbar looses a lot of functionality, with this solution you still have the statusbar available and the top bar is removed. WIN WIN – Nick Belhomme Aug 28 '19 at 06:02
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+1 Highly recommended. It comes with loads of other useful customization. – Krishna Apr 14 '20 at 16:28
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This one is the best! – KCK Sep 06 '20 at 07:47

score 7 · Answer 4 · answered May 05 '18 at 04:43

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I was having the same problem about removing top bar. What I do is hack into the theme css, and edit it in place.

Edit /usr/share/gnome-shell/theme/ubuntu.css, add to the bottom

#panel, #panel * { 
    height: 0px; 
    color: rgba(0,0,0,0); 
}

The top bar is there, but won't be visible and can't interact with user.

answered May 05 '18 at 04:43

Lee

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As @Lee says, it goes at the very end on a new line beneath the final block of css in braces – Noel Evans Jun 12 '19 at 13:17

Ciro Santilli OurBigBook.com · Answer 5 · 2021-10-27T11:05:09.760

gnome-extensions command line

The snapification of browsers broke the chrome-gnome-shell method mentioned at https://askubuntu.com/a/1029905/52975 with error message:

Although GNOME Shell integration extension is running, native host connector is not detected

as mentioned at Although GNOME Shell integration extension is running, native host connector is not detected so if you don't want to find a non snapified browser, you can download the Zip manually from: https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/3906/remove-app-menu/ or:

wget https://extensions.gnome.org/extension-data/hidetopbarmathieu.bidon.ca.v97.shell-extension.zip

You can check your GNOME shell version as shown at: How do I check my version of GNOME-Shell? with either:

gnome-extensions version
gnome-shell --version

to determine which versions are compatible based on the extensions website. Then:

gnome-extensions install hidetopbarmathieu.bidon.ca.v97.shell-extension.zip
gnome-extensions enable hidetopbar@mathieu.bidon.ca

As soon as you run enable, the top bar is immediately gone.

I wish we had a more decent standard single command CLI method, see: https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/617288/command-line-tool-to-install-gnome-shell-extensions

Other extensions of interest:

https://github.com/pixel-saver/pixel-saver worked on Ubuntu 21.10, but I think you have to log out and login again. But running this together with hidetopbar@mathieu.bidon.ca, I managed to remove both the top bar and the title bar on Ubuntu 21.10, effectively making all maximized windows become full screen! You can make them not-fullscreen with the default shortcut Alt + F10 if needed (since there's not title bar to click the unmaximize button on).
https://github.com/franglais125/no-title-bar hides the title bar instead of the top bar

Remove title-bar of all maximized windows in GNOME 3
How to open windows directly in full screen mode on Ubuntu 18.04? asks how to remove both title bar and top bar

Tested on Ubuntu 21.10.

How to hide top bar in Ubuntu 18.04?

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