On 2015-07-26, Rob Kampen <rkampen at kampensonline.com> wrote: > On 07/27/2015 05:34 AM, Fred Smith wrote: >> Hi all! >> >> I usually keep the panels on my Centos 6.6 (Gnome) so they auto-hide, >> but t'other day I wanted to keep the top panel visible for a while to >> make the clock visible for doing some rough timings. >> >> so I open the top panel, click properties, and UNcheck the "autohide" >> checkbox, close the properties menu, and to my surprise, the panel >> still autohides. Went thru that exercise several times ("come on >> guys, lets keep doing the same thing over and over til it works!", >> like congress does) >> >> So I open up the gnome configuration editor and browse around to find >> apps/panel/default_setup/toplevels/top_panel and >> apps/panel/toplevels/top_panel. >> >> neither one has a check in the checkbox for autohide, so I'm at a >> loss here as to what's going on. >> >> Anybody out there got any clues? > Did you try logging out and back in? Shouldn't be the case but it is > gnome after all.... Alternatively, issue the command 'pkill gnome-panel'; gnome-session will restart the panel for you. (Again, shouldn't be required, but ...) -- Liam