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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.
    – sup
    Nov 24, 2011 at 13:41
  • 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."
    – pHeLiOn
    May 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.

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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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  • 1
    Any idea if it works with Unity 3D?
    – sup
    May 3, 2012 at 12:25
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    @sup Have a look at this for the equivalent for unity 3D
    – user138784
    May 8, 2013 at 13:46
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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)
    – sup
    May 29, 2011 at 8:53
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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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  • The person isn't asking for an alternative to Unity. May 31, 2011 at 16:35
  • Neither am I. Read the post.
    – Ryan
    May 31, 2011 at 17:54
  • @Ryan, no you are suggesting to switch to cario-dock. May 31, 2011 at 18:26
  • 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.
    – Ryan
    May 31, 2011 at 20:23
  • Ryan: thanks, but that would be too cumbersome for me though.
    – sup
    May 31, 2011 at 21:09

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