Re: panel autohide

[Paul Lewis <paul lewis karachi freeuk com>]

On 2002.03.20 00:25 dep wrote:
> begin  Jeff Trefftzs's  quote:
> 
> | They mean right click on the panel itself.  They you should get a
> | menu that includes a "Panel" entry;  Mouse over that, you should
> | see another submenu with "properties", mouse over that, and you
> | should see "Hiding Policy", and under that you finally come to
> | "auto hide".    At least that's where it is on my newly-installed
> | RH-7.1 system.
> 
> that's the weird thing -- that's what the manual says to do, too. only
> 
> if i rmb on the panel itself and then go to the panel entry, the 
> submenu has "add to panel," "create panel," "remove this panel" 
> (greyed out), "global preferences" (which has nothing for autohide), 
> "edit menus," "panel manual" (which gets me nautilus and my home 
> directory -- odd), "about the panel," and "about gnome." no 
> properties at all. so i suppose it's a ximian thing.
> 
> -- 
> dep
> --

Hi, I don't think it is parculiar to ximian. I can get to the panel
properties dialogue (ximian Gnome), maybe it's a rights issue for your
user.