How to skip Zorin taskbar

General Help
21

Can you run the command from alt+F2?

22

No. Or, if I open another window after that, yes. So it looks like the taskbar needs to be updated in some way after running the command …

23

If you’re running the command in a Terminal window you would need to reload Gnome Shell (Alt +F2 then enter r as the command and press Enter). This is because the taskbar isn’t be able to pick up changes to the properties of existing windows.

24

Thanks, meanwhile I also realized that it works:

wmctrl -x -r tzclock.Tzclock -b add, skip_taskbar && gnome-shell-extension-tool -r zorin-taskbar@zorinos.com

(Tzclock can be any other application of course).

25

So this is how it works for me:

tzclock & sleep 2 && wmctrl -x -r tzclock.Tzclock -b add,skip_taskbar && gnome-shell-extension-tool -r zorin-taskbar@zorinos.com

I put this in a bash script and placed it in autostart.

26

Hey guys! Final code completed:

   #!/bin/bash
   tzclock &
   while :
   do
     result=$(wmctrl -l -x | grep tzclock.Tzclock 2>&1 | wc -l)
     if [ $result -eq 1 ]; then
       break
     fi
   done
   wmctrl -x -r tzclock.Tzclock -b add,skip_taskbar && gnome-shell-extension-tool -r zorin-taskbar@zorinos.com
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