usableDesktop

[Richmond]

I'm on a roll here . . .

Now 'hide menuBar' for Macintosh, and 'hideTaskBar' for Windows work
because, in both cases the 'bar' is part of the operating system.

It would be very difficult indeed to have a 'hideDesktopGunge' command for
Linux as desktop furniture is either:

1. A component of the window manager

XFCE:  http://wiki.xfce.org/faq

GNOME 2 & 3: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNOME_Panel

KDE: http://www.kde.org/announcements/4.0/desktop.php

LXDE: http://wiki.lxde.org/en/LXPanel

alright, that's enough, point taken.

2. A program that is an add on

Cairo Dock: http://glx-dock.org/

AWN: http://code.google.com/p/avant-window-navigator/

and so on, almost endlessly.

I'm sure that similar problems would arise with a "how fat is my top 
piece of
desktop furniture" script.

Richmond.