Wingpanel

This version of Wingpanel, an extensible top panel for Pantheon, includes an auto-hide feature that allows it to behave similarly to the macOS top bar. It is a fork modified to work seamlessly with elementary OS 7.

Wingpanel is an empty container that accepts indicators as extensions, including the applications menu. Individual indicators are hosted in their own repositories here.

Building and Installation

To install this version of Wingpanel, you'll need the following dependencies:

• libgala-dev
• libgee-0.8-dev
• libglib2.0-dev
• libgranite-dev >= 5.4.0
• libgtk-3-dev
• meson
• libmutter-10-dev
• valac

You can install these dependencies on Ubuntu-based systems using the command:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install -y 
    build-essential 
    valac 
    libglib2.0-dev 
    libgee-0.8-dev 
    libgtk-3-dev 
    libwnck-3-dev 
    libgranite-dev 
    gettext 
    libmutter-10-dev 
    libmutter-cogl-10-dev 
    libmutter-cogl-pango-10-dev 
    libmutter-clutter-10-dev 
    gir1.2-mutter-10 
    libgala-dev 
    meson

After installing the dependencies, you can build and install Wingpanel using the following commands:

meson build --prefix=/usr
cd build
ninja
sudo ninja install
io.elementary.wingpanel

Preventing Wingpanel from restarting, e.g. for development

Wingpanel is started automatically on elementary OS with gnome-session autostarts. If you kill the io.elementary.wingpanel process twice within 60 seconds, it will keep gnome-session from restarting it until you log out or reboot.