How do you Get the Unity Launcher to Autohide underneath other windows while not autohiding when all Windows are un-maximised?

Question

That is suppose you have google chrome open or some other program how can we get the unity launcher to autohide when it (the program) is open and maximised but to reappear when it's unmaximised (i.e. it doesn't cover the entire desktop). I am running 12.10

Answer 1

You can't. You can either let the launcher hide always, or never. "Intellihide" and "dodge windows" are removed from unity since ubuntu 12.10

Answer 2

Short answer: you can't, or at least not by default. However, if you install Unity Tweak Tool, I think it may let you do this.

Answer 3

They removed that capability from Unity, as far as I know, so as handuel said: you can't... but.

There is thogh a custom build of unity that re-enable a similar behaviour, in which the dock will hide only when it would collide with a window. This is not official code from Canonical, but it comes from an, IMHO, very reliable source, webupd8.

You can install such a patched version of Unity (from webupd8 great repositories):

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:nilarimogard/webupd8
sudo apt-get update

And then, to get the "real" Unity Dodge Windows

sudo apt-get install unity-dodge-windows

Once installed, press ALT + F2 and run:

unity-dodge-windows

Source, from webupd8: http://www.webupd8.org/2013/02/how-to-get-unity-launcher-window-dodge.html