how to programmaticaly remove the top bar and left bar on ubuntu? - bash

everythings is in the title. I'm looking for series of command I can do only from a terminal, and if possible, for all users.
I don't want to user gnome-shell for weird raisons (virt-viewer works much better within complete gnome)
Thanks in advance,

Found out it was only a configuration file that I had to change: /usr/share/gnome-shell/modes/ubuntu.json to do the trick.
Sorry for the inconvenance

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