I'm somebody who personally likes switching up the UI of my devices every few months, so I recently decided to ditch plank and wingpanel in favor of xfce4-panel. Ditching plank turned out to remove elementary os tweaks as well, but at least I found a hacky method of hiding it so it didn't get in the way, so I didn't even need to uninstall it. Wingpanel proves to be more challenging, as it removes pantheon-xsession-settings and pantheon-shell along with it, therefore preventing me from being able to log in. Unlike Plank, Wingpanel doesn't even have customization in the slightest, so I see no way of removing it or disabling it, and there seems to be no results on Google about it. This is the point where I would switch to Debian but I don't want to go through the work of distro hopping and I don't want to give up Elementary OS's user friendliness. How can I remove wingpanel, or disable it, or at the very least make it completely invisible like I did with Plank?
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What do you mean writing that wingpanel does not have customization?– SysadminCommented Jul 12, 2020 at 6:47
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elementaryos.stackexchange.com/q/17213/19988– SysadminCommented Jul 12, 2020 at 6:49
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How to customize wingpanel. elementaryos.stackexchange.com/q/24530/19988– SysadminCommented Jul 12, 2020 at 6:53
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One more customization. elementaryos.stackexchange.com/q/24223/19988– SysadminCommented Jul 12, 2020 at 6:55
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I found that first one. It seems to only work on 5.0. On 5.1 there's no default values there are all. @Sysadmin– ioi-xdCommented Jul 12, 2020 at 18:33
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So I ended up devising my own hacky solution to get rid of it. I made a bash file titled /usr/bin/nowingpanel and in it, I put this...
#!/bin/bash
while true; do
sleep 1
killall wingpanel
done
I made it an executable and put it in the startup applications and now wingpanel is no more.
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Yes, you can kill wingpanel with 1s delay after startup using the Bourne bash script. Nice workaround. Upvoted.– SysadminCommented Jul 12, 2020 at 19:08