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Asked: 2011-04-30 06:47:40 +0800 CST

How do I remove the Unity launcher?

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How can we remove the launcher that come with Unity on this new Ubuntu version ?

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  1. In 12.04, you can go to System Settings > Appearance > Behavior and turn on autohide, then turn the sensitivity all the way down. Now the launcher will only show when you press Super.

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    1. Install ccsm (Compiz Config Settings Manager)

    2. Launch ccsm and click on the "Unity Plugin"

    3. Under "Behavior", change "Hide Launcher" to "autohide"

    4. Change "Reveal Mode" to None.

    5. Disable "Key to show launcher" and "Key to put focus on launcher"

    *Disabling "Key to show launcher" may prevent you from accessing the dash. If you omit this part of step 5, you can access the dash, but the launcher will appear non-invasively while the dash is displayed. I don't know of any way to stop this.

    Update: 12.04 does things differently, thus this may not work after 11.10.

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  3. Best Answer

    In simple words: you can't. By design, the launcher is intended to stay there always. If you want to give it up, the only way to do so is to give up the entire unity interface by switching to some other DE or by switching to the classic GNOME session.

    Moving the launcher to some other edge of the screen is also not implemented and wouldn't be, as per Mark's comment on a bug.

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  4. You could do the following:

    1. Install and launch the ComizConfig Settings Manger.
    2. Select the Ubuntu Unity Plugin.
    3. Set the Hide Launcher option to 'Autohide'.
    4. Set the Reveal Mode option from 'Left' to 'None'.

    That should do the trick. You may need to execute setsid unity for the changes to apply.

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  5. You can go back to the classic GNOME session as described in this answer.

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  6. in compiz i went to the unity section and then the experimental tab and set these values to simply 'fool' the bar into never appearing unless the super button is pressed. If I can get the dash to separate from the bar entirely and move it to Cairo dock i will be extremely satisfied. ...........anyway Experimental Tab

    • panel opacity 0.0050
    • Launcher Opacity 0.0000
    • Reveal Edge 0.2000
    • Reveal Pressure 999 (this is the main one so mouse cant grab window)
    • Edge Overcome pressure 1
    • mouse pressure decay 1
    • edge stop 1
    • menu fade in and the rest are all 0
    • launcher captures mouse ....UNCheCkEd

    this way their is no hacking just a little easy tweaking and dash is still there and bar is only visible when hitting dash ...... i guess i could go remove all the launchers from it now and then it would hardly be noticeable.....cheers

    you can also go in the config editor and change these values with greater range

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  7. In the file /usr/share/unity-2d/shell/Shell.qml, and can be edited with the command

    gksudo gedit /usr/share/unity-2d/shell/Shell.qml

    The way to remove the remnant bar that was floating there was to set:

    LauncherLoader {
id: launcherLoader
anchors.top: parent.top
anchors.bottom: parent.bottom
width: 0

    ^Change the width to either 0 or 1, 1 will show 1 pixel, but will not produce graphic artifacts.

    Is there a less hack-y way to do this?

    The other file can be edited using

    gksudo gedit /usr/share/unity-2d/shell/launcher/Launcher.qml

    I am aware of the autohide feature in CCSM, however that is not what I am looking for. I wanted to place a separate launcher OVER unity, and the sensitivity of autohide would make it difficult to use both.

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  8. If you log out, insert your username you can then choose (at the bottom) to log into 'Ubuntu Classic'. That'll get you the old 2 panel style gnome.

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  9. at least, you can set it to "autohide", ccsm has an option for that

    1. Install CompizConfig Settings Manager Install compizconfig-settings-manager (CCSM).
    2. Alt + F2
    3. type about:config and press Enter
    4. change the hide launcher setting to autohide.
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  10. Important:

    If would you want gnome panels before disabling launcher;

    Navigate to System>Preferences>Startup Applications

    Click Add

    Name=Gnome panels

Command=gnome-panel

    And click close button.

    It's ok.

    -Unity with gnome panels

    Press SUPER key and type

    ccsm

    than press ENTER.

    Disable unity plugin from Compiz Config window (uncheck click box)

    Logout & Login to Ubuntu session

    -Unity without launcher ...
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