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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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possible duplicate of Shortcut to change Launcher 'Hide' setting – jokerdino May 6 at 1:49
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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.

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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 '11 at 8:53
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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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Any idea if it works with Unity 3D? – sup May 3 at 12:25
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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. – nickguletskii May 31 '11 at 16:35
Neither am I. Read the post. – Ryan May 31 '11 at 17:54
@Ryan, no you are suggesting to switch to cario-dock. – nickguletskii May 31 '11 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 '11 at 20:23
Ryan: thanks, but that would be too cumbersome for me though. – sup May 31 '11 at 21:09
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