How can unity-panel-service be disabled?
- by Amos Annoy
From the unity-panel-service manpages:
DESCRIPTION
The unity-panel-service program is normally started automatically by the Unity
shell (which gets started as a compiz module) and is used to draw panels which can
then be used for the global menu, or to hold indicators.
How can the unity-panel-service be non-automatically started abnormally?
In other words, how is it arbitrarily manually started and/or stopped?
The manpage implication is that this can be done without stopping the Unity shell.
This answer seems promising:
Is it possible to restart the unity panel without restarting compiz?
but ... not. The process can be killed from System Monitor but it restarts automatically.
references:
How can menu bars that require a right click be activated like Ubuntu versions <10.10?
How do I disable the global application menu?