Cinnamon: Make panel go above the Window

[eudennis]

I'm not sure if this is the best place for this, if not. Sorry.

I was trying to make some modifications on the Cinnamon panel behavior, but I didn't figure out yet how to make it go above the Window like the XFCE panel does.

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• Cinnamon version (cinnamon --version)
• Distribution - (Mint 17.2, Arch, Fedora 25, etc...)
• Graphics hardware and driver used
• 32 or 64 bit
  ```

Issue
Be able to place Window below the panel

Steps to reproduce
Create a panel and a windows ;)

Expected behaviour
When you use any window in fullscreen, the panel stay fixed. I want to get the panel on top of the window container.

Other information
Cinnamon 3.4.4
Gnome Ubuntu 17.04
64 bits

[leigh123linux]

Required info not provided!

[eudennis]

Actually this isn't an issue, that's why I didn't provided the required Info.

[NikoKrause]

I don't get it. Screenshot?

[eudennis]

As you can see on the screenshot, the panel is above the window. But even on full screen, I cannot make the panel overlap the window.

[itzexor]

The panels should normally be hidden when in-fullscreen. Which application is the panel showing over when in fullscreen?

Edit: windows should not cover the panel when maximized, and should not be able to be moved under the panel in normal circumstances.

[eudennis]

I know that isn't the normal behavior, but I was looking for something like the "Don't reserve space on borders"

https://maketecheasier-2d0f.kxcdn.com/assets/uploads/2013/08/xfce-panel-preferences.png

[itzexor]

This is not supported, and would probably be pretty unusuable for most people if implemented without any other changes, but you can make it happen manually by entering a command like this into melange (super+L):

Main.layoutManager._chrome.modifyActorParams(Main.panelManager.panels[1].actor, {affectsStruts: false})

You'll have to change the Main.panelManager.panels[1].actor to the correct panel.

Doing this with a top panel will make the application titlebar inaccessible while maximized, and windows will go under the panel by default.

You are probably better off just using an autohiding panel if you want to make full use of the screen space, that automatically turns off struts.

edit: to reverse the effect just change affectsStruts: false to affectsStruts: true

[eudennis]

Wow! That's was exactly what I was looking for! Thanks

[eudennis]

In XFCE you can make the panel use just 20% of the screen width, or any value you want. But this is enough for me. Thanks :)

[eudennis]

What I should to to run this at boot?

[itzexor]

You can make a simple applet or extension to run that command

[itzexor]

There is a tutorial you can read by using the Devhelp application just look for "Cinnamon Tutorials". There is also a copy on the linuxmint developer website but it is currently out of date.

[JosephMcc]

We don't support partial width panels in Cinnamon and have no plans to as far as I know. In our configs the panel should always go below fullscreened windows.