This is my first Linux tutorial (and one of my first bash scripts!) so I thought I'd keep it simple.

I like to autohide my Cinnamon panel to free up screen space and help me focus on the active application window.  (I also use maximus to hide window titlebars.)  However, I prefer to use the mouse as little as possible, so having to move the mouse cursor to the top of the screen every time I want to check the time—or I forget which applications I have open!—is a real pain.

To solve this problem I wrote a simple little script to toggle the value of the /org/cinnamon/panel-autohide flag, which as you might guess sets whether the panel will autohide or remain at the top of the screen.

To use this script you must have dconf-cli installed on your system (I'm pretty sure it should be by default).

#!/bin/bash

 

# get state of panel-autohide

state=`dconf read /org/cinnamon/panel-autohide`

 

# if autohide on, turn it off and vice versa

if [ $state = "true" ]; then

    dconf write /org/cinnamon/panel-autohide false

else

    dconf write /org/cinnamon/panel-autohide true

fi

#!/bin/bash

 

# get state of panel-autohide

state=`dconf read /org/cinnamon/panel-autohide`

 

# if autohide on, turn it off and vice versa

if [ $state = "true" ]; then

    dconf write /org/cinnamon/panel-autohide false

else

    dconf write /org/cinnamon/panel-autohide true

fi

 

#!/bin/bash

 

# get state of panel-autohide

state=`dconf read /org/cinnamon/panel-autohide`

 

# if autohide on, turn it off and vice versa

if [ $state = "true" ]; then

    dconf write /org/cinnamon/panel-autohide false

else

    dconf write /org/cinnamon/panel-autohide true

fi

 

Save this script to a file somewhere in your home folder.  I recommend creating a new folder for all your scripts and giving it a short name like ~/.src/ as you will often need to type it.  Then all you need to do is bind a key to it.  If you don't know how to bind keys and your desktop environment doesn't have a built-in keyboard shortcuts menu then search for xbindkeys; it's a very easy program to use.

 

Sorry I do not know how to properly format source code on here.