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I found a way to make the icon backgrounds transparent for the Unity Launcher by changing the files under /usr/share/unity/4.

Does anyone know how to make the background transparent for the launcher itself? I already made it transparent under Compiz, but I want to remove the line that separates the launcher from the desktop. If anything, I just want to make it look like the icons are floating.

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You want to remove the 1px white border around the launcher, right? If that's the case, I believe it's hard coded and it's not something that can be achieved without messing up with unity source code, or in your case - with the unity-rotated one :)

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  • thank you for your response. i was hoping that wasn't the case. :( when i removed the border around the icons, there were transparent .pngs with a border that were used as a border. I deleted them and replaced them with a purely transparent file of the same size and it removed the border. Maybe there is a .png of the "background" with the border for the entire launcher too? Feb 16, 2012 at 15:49
  • Nope, there isn't one, at least not one that I know of :P
    – me4oslav
    Feb 16, 2012 at 15:53
  • Well, given that, are there any good dock programs out there? :) Feb 16, 2012 at 15:59
  • You can try Docky, DockBarX, Avant-Window-Navigator, Cairo-Dock etc... but don't you think that using Unity with a third party dock is a bit of a overkill? :)
    – me4oslav
    Feb 16, 2012 at 18:24
  • Good point. :) I think I can just live with the little line Feb 23, 2012 at 7:23

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