# Panel Auto Hide and Startup Applications

**URL:** <https://forums.suse.com/t/panel-auto-hide-and-startup-applications/35135>\
**Category:** SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop\
**Created:** [July 10, 2020, 9:57am UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/panel-auto-hide-and-startup-applications/35135 "2020-07-10T09:57:55Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![aman](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/user_avatar/forums.suse.com/aman/32/10298_2.png) [@aman](https://forums.suse.com/u/aman)\
**Post date:** [July 10, 2020, 9:57am UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/panel-auto-hide-and-startup-applications/35135/1 "2020-07-10T09:57:55Z")

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hi i have installed SLED12 sp4 ,i am facing following Issues:

1. not able to hide the panel (taskbar) , right click on panel not working and not able to invoke panel preferences/properties window, as i was able to do in openSuse 11.3 ![](https://forums.suse.com/uploads/editor/tv/sloggfozr2az.jpg)

2.gnome-session-properties is not found so not able to add some scripts which i want to run during startup .same i can see in openSuse11.3  
 ![](https://forums.suse.com/uploads/editor/45/y8xsbvw8qjx9.png)

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**Author:** ![malcolmlewis](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/user_avatar/forums.suse.com/malcolmlewis/32/11375_2.png) [@malcolmlewis](https://forums.suse.com/u/malcolmlewis)\
**Post date:** [July 10, 2020, 1:56pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/panel-auto-hide-and-startup-applications/35135/2 "2020-07-10T13:56:44Z")

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Hi and welcome to the Forum 🙂  
This is because the switch to GNOME Shell, sounds like your using the ‘Classic’ option (panel at the bottom). Consider switching to the non-classic version (logout, select the cog and change). The ‘Classic’ option is controlled via customized shell extensions, trying to change those can cause issues…

I have found just switching and adding shell extensions from [https://extensions.gnome.org](https://extensions.gnome.org) and not touching the installed ones should give you the customization’s your after…

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**Author:** ![aman](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/user_avatar/forums.suse.com/aman/32/10298_2.png) [@aman](https://forums.suse.com/u/aman)\
**Post date:** [July 13, 2020, 11:18am UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/panel-auto-hide-and-startup-applications/35135/3 "2020-07-13T11:18:23Z")

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Hi malcolmlewis,  
thanks for quick reply , yes i was using SLE Classic ,now i have switched to GNOME ,i tried some extensions like dashtoPanel, distractionFree, mmod etc. dashtopanel worked for me.  
thanks for your help 🙂  
 ![](https://forums.suse.com/uploads/editor/mo/2c43afds2agl.png)

thanks  
aman

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**Author:** ![aman](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/user_avatar/forums.suse.com/aman/32/10298_2.png) [@aman](https://forums.suse.com/u/aman)\
**Post date:** [July 13, 2020, 3:07pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/panel-auto-hide-and-startup-applications/35135/4 "2020-07-13T15:07:21Z")

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can you suggest something for my second problem as well which is unavailability of \*\* “gnome-session-properties”\*\* in SLED12 sp4 .

thanks

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**Author:** ![malcolmlewis](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/user_avatar/forums.suse.com/malcolmlewis/32/11375_2.png) [@malcolmlewis](https://forums.suse.com/u/malcolmlewis)\
**Post date:** [July 13, 2020, 3:44pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/panel-auto-hide-and-startup-applications/35135/5 "2020-07-13T15:44:38Z")

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Hi  
This is done via Tweaks → Startup applications, or if not in list, my preferred method for a custom application/script is to create a desktop file in ~/.config/autostart/