temporarily hiding panels

[Brian J. Tarricone]

David Mohr wrote:
> Hi,
> wine has a bug that causes panels to show sometimes in fullscreen
> mode. So before starting wine, I want to temporarily remove the panels
> from the screen. Now I can do that easily by manipulating the
> panels.xml file, and simply killing xfce4-panel.
> 
> Yet this approach seems a bit ugly and has the side-effect of
> uniconifying programs on my second screen (i.e. pidgin), even though
> the panel is only removed there for a split of a second.... is there
> some nicer way I can handle this?

Doubtful.  Regardless, the reason pidgin is reappearing is because when 
you kill the panel, the system tray goes away, and pidgin shows itself 
so you don't lose it.  Nothing to do with the panel, specifically.

	-brian