How can we remove the launcher that come with Unity on this new Ubuntu version ?
Ubuntu – How to remove the Unity launcher
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12.04 and later
From the Gear, choose System Settings
Double click the Appearance icon
Click the behaviour tab and then toggle the autohide option...
You can re-reveal the menu by pushing onto the left-hand side of the window or the top corner depending upon which option is shown as per the picture.
- To disable workspaces completely
- See @fossfreedom answer https://askubuntu.com/a/211169
To just remove the icon but still preserve workspaces
Open the terminal and execute:
gsettings get com.canonical.Unity.Launcher favorites
the output will be something like,
['application://nautilus.desktop', 'application://chromium-browser.desktop', 'application://ubuntu-software-center.desktop', 'application://ubuntuone-installer.desktop', 'application://ubuntu-amazon-default.desktop', 'application://UbuntuOneMusiconeubuntucom.desktop', 'application://gnome-control-center.desktop', 'unity://running-apps', 'unity://expo-icon', 'unity://devices']To remove the workspaces icon from the dock you should just take out
'unity://expo-icon'from that list. Taking it out, for this case the command should be:gsettings set com.canonical.Unity.Launcher favorites "['application://nautilus.desktop', 'application://chromium-browser.desktop', 'application://ubuntu-software-center.desktop', 'application://ubuntuone-installer.desktop', 'application://ubuntu-amazon-default.desktop', 'application://UbuntuOneMusiconeubuntucom.desktop', 'application://gnome-control-center.desktop', 'unity://running-apps', 'unity://devices']"(Don't forget the double quotes for the list on
gsettings set)
Currently I'm using eight workspaces with the help of Unity Tweak Tool. I like to have multiple workspaces, but didn't like the unremovable Unity Launcher icon that much, even more because it could only resemble four workspaces while I was using eight instead.
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Best Answer
In simple words: you can't. By design, the launcher is intended to stay there always. If you want to give it up, the only way to do so is to give up the entire unity interface by switching to some other DE or by switching to the classic GNOME session.
Moving the launcher to some other edge of the screen is also not implemented and wouldn't be, as per Mark's comment on a bug.