Previously, on older Ubuntu releases with Unity I could manually set the "Launcher Reveal Pressure" to increase or decrease the sensitivity to unhide the Unity Launcher when it's hidden using the CompizConfig Settings Manager (refer to this answer).
How can I do the same with Ubuntu Dock on newer Ubuntu releases with GNOME 3?
At least since 18.04 Bionic Beaver, maybe previously, dash-to-dock GNOME extension was defined as system default dock application and its settings are stored through dconf.
One of those got me confused. The available value description and summary couldn't help me so much, and trying to discover what it does I haven't observed any difference between turn it on or off. So I'm bringing this doubt to here!
What do org.gnome.shell.extension.dash-to-dock intellihide and intellihide-mode dconf variables do?
As in this question, I found that when I set "Settings -> Dock -> Auto-hide the Dock" to "On", the dock almost completely covers the leftmost column of desktop icons:
This makes it very difficult to see or select those icons. (I can manually drag them out from under the dock, but then e.g. clicking "arrange icons by name" or changing the dock auto-hide settings moves them back under it again.)
Unlike the OP for the linked question, whose preferred solution is to hide the dock when there are no windows covering it, I would prefer the icons to default to locations that are not covered by the dock, as they do when the dock is not set to auto-hide. Is there any way to do this?
In Ubuntu 17.04 with Unity I could auto-hide the launcher using this command:
dconf write "/org/compiz/profiles/unity/plugins/unityshell/launcher-hide-mode" 1
But this does not work in Ubuntu 17.10 with GNOME 3. Now the "launcher" has become the "dock" also.
Note: I can do it from the Settings menu: Settings->Dock and click the toggle button for "Auto-hide the Dock" to "On", this is fine, but I am interesting in a scripting solution using e.g., gsettings, such that this feature can be turned on automatically when I install a new Ubuntu machine.
What intrinsic purpose does the static unity panel hold for the OS?
There has to be a great reason for this thing to HAVE to be here. It ONLY goes away in fullscreen apps and I can't use everything fullscreen
Why can the unity panel not be hidden?