# Hide module panel by default
**URL:** https://discourse.slicer.org/t/hide-module-panel-by-default/5156
**Category:** Development
**Created:** [December 20, 2018, 5:49pm UTC](https://discourse.slicer.org/t/hide-module-panel-by-default/5156 "2018-12-20T17:49:42Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
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### Author:  [@Ulla](https://discourse.slicer.org/u/Ulla)
#### Post date: [December 20, 2018, 5:49pm UTC](https://discourse.slicer.org/t/hide-module-panel-by-default/5156/1 "2018-12-20T17:49:42Z")
Hi,
I want to configure my Slicer so that the “Module panel” won’t show up when starting Slicer. Can that be done somewhere from application settings or with a Python script?
It doesn’t seem to be possible from application settings, it’s only possible to select a default startup module. I have tried with slicerrc.py to get reference to qSlicerModulePanel object so that I could hide it on startup, but I haven’t find a way to do it.
Br, Ulla
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### Author:  [@lassoan](https://discourse.slicer.org/u/lassoan)
#### Post date: [December 20, 2018, 5:53pm UTC](https://discourse.slicer.org/t/hide-module-panel-by-default/5156/2 "2018-12-20T17:53:08Z")
You can hide the module panel from Python script (that you can include in the startup script) as shown here: [https://gist.github.com/lassoan/7d4cec3012155e2597ee3f47157f0a65#file-simpleview-py-L10-L11](https://gist.github.com/lassoan/7d4cec3012155e2597ee3f47157f0a65#file-simpleview-py-L10-L11) .
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### Author:  [@lassoan](https://discourse.slicer.org/u/lassoan)
#### Post date: [December 20, 2018, 6:38pm UTC](https://discourse.slicer.org/t/hide-module-panel-by-default/5156/3 "2018-12-20T18:38:02Z")
A post was merged into an existing topic: [Make Slicer simpler to use for new users](https://discourse.slicer.org/t/make-slicer-simpler-to-use-for-new-users/5059/29)