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How to hide/move panel selector in Opera?

Monday, June 26, 2006 10:14:31 AM

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Open panel > Right click on panel selector > Customize... > Toolbars > Placement

Opera panel selector at left side
Panel selector at left side

Opera panel selector placement
Panel selector placement

Opera panel selector at top
Panel selector at top

To reorder panel selectors, hold Shift key, click panel selector and drag & drop to required postion.

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Comments

Steve DarkenDarken Thursday, June 29, 2006 12:57:10 AM

Excellent tip, thanx!

Eddie LopezEddie_Lopez Saturday, August 5, 2006 6:09:50 AM

This is the first thing i do to a new Opera setup.

I also remove the "Bookmark" section and move the "manage bookmarks" >> down to the Add/View toolbar:
http://my.opera.com/Eddie_Lopez/homes/files/panel.jpg

Unregistered user Sunday, October 8, 2006 8:07:24 PM

Anonymous writes: Tamil, you are the man!!!

Knut Remi "DrLaunch" Løvlidrlaunch Tuesday, October 24, 2006 11:52:07 AM

Thanks Tamil. I know something now, that I didn't know when I made this thread.

I placed the panel selector in the bottom of the sidebar, wrapped over several lines, with small icons.

Thanks.

Philip Seyfiseifip Tuesday, October 24, 2006 12:38:04 PM

wow! that's simply genial!!! thnx a lot. whis hsould be implimented in the default setup bigsmile

videobruce Tuesday, January 23, 2007 12:08:11 PM

I wish that was the default view. Why have a almost blank grey panel that robs width to the screen??

JerryJNinja Thursday, January 25, 2007 12:24:52 AM

funny, i don`t have this option on my list.

Tamil Thursday, January 25, 2007 12:44:55 AM

Originally posted by JNinja:

funny, i don`t have this option on my list.

Can you post screenshot?

Unregistered user Thursday, April 26, 2007 12:42:03 AM

Squeg writes: Opera 9 seems to have made changes to the panel controls. I can't find any method of disabling or moving the Panel selector seperately from the Panel Display. (I don't need those buttons because there's a perfectly serviceable drop down list that does the same thing in less space.) Has anyone else found away to display a panel without displaying the selector in Opera 9+?

Unregistered user Monday, April 30, 2007 7:29:30 AM

ashot writes: yea, wtf are they doing.. I'm in the same boat with squeg. damn it opera.. sometimes I wish I could just stick with the same version/settings and just update the rendering engine.

Unregistered user Wednesday, August 4, 2010 11:03:03 PM

And writes: I have the Panel Bar turned ON, but as I do not use the Panel Selector, I just have turned it off. When I close Opera with no Panel visible, after restarting, the Panel is turned on.... I have reported it through Opera's bug website. Anybody with came probs?

Tamil Thursday, August 5, 2010 12:57:14 AM

Do you start Opera with saved session?

r-a-y Tuesday, November 23, 2010 10:43:03 PM

Briliant! Four year old post and still works in Opera 11.

Just goes to show that Opera never abandons UI elements wink

Thanks Tamil.

Tamil Tuesday, November 23, 2010 11:21:35 PM

smile

hundredorzero Saturday, March 24, 2012 9:16:16 PM

How to disable panel selector without disabling the current panel itself? In other words how to show a panel without showing panel selector? I am sure, sometime back, i had custom keyboard shortcuts for showing panels only, without showing panel selector, and if memory serves me right, i got those shortcuts from one of your blogposts.

my current shortcut for showing mail panel is as follow:

Focus panel, "mail" | Set alignment, "hotlist", 0

Tamil Sunday, April 1, 2012 9:30:53 AM

May be you might have selected panel selector placement off.

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