Is there a DBus command to toggle auto-hide on a KDE Plasma panel?

Question

Is there a DBus command (or some other way from the command line) to toggle auto-hide on a panel in KDE Plasma? (I'm running KDE 4.6.)

I have a game I run in WINE that doesn't work right if it's autohidden and it would be nice to run it from a script that takes care of that for me.

Answer 1

You can do it easily through plasma desktop scripts, like this:

auto-hide on:

var panel = panelById(panelIds[0])
panel.hiding = 'autohide';

auto-hide off:

var panel = panelById(panelIds[0])
panel.hiding = 'none';

The bad news is there is no way to programatically run the script when you want it except perhaps for some kind of keyboard+mouse automation.

The closest you can get (per this discussion on KDE forum) is open the script in desktop console via

qdbus org.kde.plasma-desktop /MainApplication \
    loadScriptInInteractiveConsole /path/to/js/file

There is bug #238817 in KDE Bugzilla filed on this.

Answer 2

As of July 2018, the answer suggested by @che doesn't work.

Here is something that does work though:

qdbus org.kde.plasmashell /PlasmaShell evaluateScript "p = panelById(panelIds[0]); p.height = 32 - p.height;"    

32 is the height I like. Set that to a different number as you like.

Relevant KDE Bug: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=396796

Answer 3

There is a kwin script that toggle panel

https://www.opendesktop.org/p/1266534/

and

https://www.opendesktop.org/p/1269113/

We can also add more feature to a panel by setting it up in (KDE System Settings - Window Manager - Window Rules - New - Detect Window Properties "And select your pannel"

Answer 4

I think you should check Re: Documentation for the dbus methods for plasma and for some example of how to use dbus Lauching K menu with DBus.

If a method is present it will easy to find.