Taskbar won't stay auto hidden

[Monkeyman]

Hi Monkeyman

Not that anyone's reading this but there's a new development.

Just because there are no replies doesn't mean people are ignoring your post. It's more likely they just don't have an answer for you currently.

Have you tried the xfce website and forum?
www.xfce.org

When Googling the phrase
"xfce panel won't hide"
I get many results.
https://www.google.com/#q=xfce+panel+won%27t+hide

Here's one link to a Linux Mint forum post titled - xfce panel won't autohide.
http://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?f=90&t=173227
from this link (this is just one part of the entire post):

hmmmmm I found a solution. reset the panel with 'xfce4-panel -r' but that begs the question why does it need to be reset or..... what happened to cause it to need to be reset?

You're right and I apologize.  After previous issues with other Linux distros, I'm just getting overly frustrated.

I didn't know the taskbar was called an xfce bar.  I'm pretty new to Linux and don't know all the jargon.  I did a search for "taskbar won't auto hide in Linux" and got plenty of results but none that seemed to solve the problem.

I assume the "xfce4-panel -r" command should go in a terminal.  If the taskbar DOESN'T need to be reset, will this hurt anything?  Will it erase all the settings/icons/etc I've already put in there?