Ubuntu – How to Get Rid of the Shadow Above the Launcher Icon

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I'm wanting to know how to get rid of the black/gray shadow above the launcher icon and below the panel that stretches across the top of the screen. It's on the the top 6-7 pixels (vertically across the launcher) of just the launcher. Below was the image :

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The launcher and panel are both completely transparent because I changed them in Unity Tweak Tool, just for reference, and wanting to know how to get rid of this shadow.

Best Answer

I have just migrated to Ubuntu and tweaked the Unity Desktop environment to my heart's content. I wanted a nice flat material design theme for my desktop. Everything went well but the launcher_bfb button didn't change. It still had a shadow and a glow. After googling I found out that the icon is placed in the following directory: /usr/share/unity/icons.

The launcher_bfb icon is made up 13 different png and svg images (atleast in Ubuntu 16.04), namely,

  1. launcher_bfb.png
  2. launcher_icon_back_54.svg
  3. launcher_icon_back_150.svg
  4. launcher_icon_edge_54.svg
  5. launcher_icon_edge_150.svg
  6. launcher_icon_glow_62.svg
  7. launcher_icon_glow_62.png
  8. launcher_icon_glow_200.svg
  9. launcher_icon_selected_back_54.svg
  10. launcher_icon_selected_back_150.svg
  11. launcher_icon_shadow_62.svg
  12. launcher_icon_shadow_200.svg
  13. launcher_icon_shine_54.svg

I just replaced these files (except the first one) with blank png/svg files of same dimensions and it worked for me.

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