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mFat
Asked: 2014-05-27 00:36:02 +0800 CST

How to lock unity's "Show Desktop" button

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I have added a show desktop button to unity but it keeps moving down towards the bottom of the launcher. I want to pin and lock it in place, so that it is always under the ubuntu logo.

How can I do that?

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1 Answers

  1. I am not sure why drag and drop does not work as a permanent solution in your case, it seems for some reason the changed order does not stick via GUI.

    However, you can bypass the GUI and set the Unity Launcher items order by command line directly, which should do the job if the GUI way fails.

    Getting the current launcher items list

    Run in a terminal:

    gsettings get com.canonical.Unity.Launcher favorites

    The output will be a list of your current launcher items, looking like:

    ['item1', 'item2', 'unity://desktop-icon']

    Copy the list and safe it in a textfile as a backup in case anything might go wrong.

    Place the show desktop icon in another position

    Your show desktop mention is called: 

    'unity://desktop-icon'

    Move it to the position you'd like to have it it in the list, and apply the new list. The changed list should look like:

    ['unity://desktop-icon', 'item1', 'item2']

    Apply the new order

    Apply the new order by the command:

    gsettings set com.canonical.Unity.Launcher favorites "['unity://desktop-icon''item2', 'item3']"

    (mind the quotes around the list!)

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