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I am using plank dock so I want to completely disable the unity launcher in ubuntu 16.04.

I used the autohide method and set the reveal pressure very high. But there are there are two problems with this method:

  1. When I open unity dash by pressing the Super key, the launcher reveals.

  2. When I minimize an application then the app icon pops out from left side of the hidden launcher.

I want to completely disable it.

Sanjay Prajapat
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Answer to my own question:

It can be done by editing the source code and remove the lines that are used to show the launcher.

I edited the files and recompiled the package. You don't have to reinstall the complete package, it can be done by replacing only one file.

libunityshell.so

Download the file with given link and replace the file /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/compiz/libunityshell.so with downloaded file.

Backup the file before replacing.

Set the launcher in autohide mode and restart your pc.

After restart :

  • No launcher revealing when you move mouse pointer to left side.
  • No launcher wake up while launching unity dash.
  • No icon popped out from launcher while minimizing an application.

Means, this will completely disable the unity launcher.

This package is compiled in ubuntu 16.04 (x64) Unity 7.4.0. It works fine for me.

For other than Ubuntu 16.04 (x64) Unity 7.4.0 use the following link

Compile Unity without launcher

It is not working with unity 7.4.5

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Sanjay Prajapat
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As far as I know, you can't, the best thing you can do is to go to System Settings > Appearance > Behavior here you can turn on 'Auto hide' for the launchpad, and then turn the sensitivity all the way down, now it almost never shows up unless you press super key.

ganjim
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I'm not familiar with plank because I use cairo-dock but there is a cairo-dock (GNOME) desktop that can be loaded at login and there is no unity dock but you also lose the panel.

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