I would like to manually control when the launcher is shown or hidden. Is it possible? There is no option to "never show launcher", nor have I found a way to force the launcher to hide.
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So it seems this is not possible. I opened a bug, let's see what the Unity team will make out of it. Thanks everybody for your answers.– supNov 24, 2011 at 13:41
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The above question is quite an old question from 2011 but a similar question and answer here: askubuntu.com/questions/292542/… will probably be useful to anyone looking at this. There's a good answer starting with: "One way to do it simply is to create a custom shortcut."– pHeLiOnMay 30, 2016 at 19:05
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If the launcher is set to auto-hide, with Super + e (mostly Windows + e) you can make the launcher show again. Havent found a way to hide the launcher through a shortcut though.
I use unity2d and i made this script to toogle the launcher :
#!/bin/sh
var=$(gsettings get com.canonical.Unity2d.Launcher hide-mode)
if [ "$var" = 0 ]
then
exec gsettings set com.canonical.Unity2d.Launcher hide-mode 2
else
exec gsettings set com.canonical.Unity2d.Launcher hide-mode 0
fi
after you can set a shortcut who launch this script
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You can configure it to hide automatically when not used. Launch the CompizConfig Settings Manager (package compizconfig-settings-manager), find the Ubuntu Unity Plugin there, and change the Hide Launcher setting to "Autohide".
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Yeah, I know, the trouble is in "automatically". I would like to be able to trigger hide/unhide manually (via a shortcut, preferably)– supMay 29, 2011 at 8:53
I use Cairo-Dock (not without its own set of problems) as it is far superior to the Unity launcher. What I have done for the moment is use compizconfig settings manager to enable auto-hide, in combination with the reveal mode set to 'None'. Now instead of popping up when I navigate to the edge of the screen it only pops up (annoyingly) when using 'find'.
Of course, I really would really rather just disable the launcher altogether. And compiz too, but gnome unfortunately does not support transparencies without compiz. And Unity apparently just doesn't work without the horrible launcher.
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Perhaps I stated it poorly, but I only described to the parent poster how I hid the Unity launcher and why. Again I say to you, actually read my post, and maybe the parent poster's as well. We may have different end goals but the solution is the same.– RyanMay 31, 2011 at 20:23
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