unity panel make sticky

[Bruce Pieterse]

On Sun 23 Oct 2011 21:23:14 SAST, Colin Law wrote:
> On 23 October 2011 20:15, Bruce Pieterse<octoquadza at gmail.com>  wrote:
>> On Sun 23 Oct 2011 21:00:44 SAST, Johnny Rosenberg wrote:
>>>
>>> 2011/10/23 Bruce Pieterse<octoquadza at gmail.com>:
>>>>
>>>> On Sun 23 Oct 2011 19:53:23 SAST, Henri Mone wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Dear Unity Users,
>>>>>
>>>>> I just switched to Ubuntu 11.10. I'm coming to unity desktop from
>>>>> gnome. It is for me quiet annoying that the panel on the left side
>>>>> always diapers. I would like to know:
>>>>>
>>>>> 1. How do I make the unity panel on the left side sticky?
>>>>> 2. How do I make the icons on the unity panel smaller, not all of my
>>>>> applications fit on the panel.
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks,
>>>>> Henri
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Hi Henri,
>>>>
>>>> You can find this option under the Compiz Config Settings Manager. This
>>>> can
>>>> be installed via the terminal with sudo apt-get install
>>>> compizconfig-settings-manager. Once installed you can launch the
>>>> application
>>>> and then click on Ubuntu Unity Plugin. To make the panel sticky change
>>>> the
>>>> option "Hide Launcher" to "Never". To change the size of the icons switch
>>>> to
>>>> the "Experimental" tab on the top and change "Launcher icon size" to its
>>>> minimum value of 32.
>>>>
>>>> You might need to logout and login again to see the changes. If the
>>>> changes
>>>> still do not reflect try restarting the OS. I changed the settings
>>>> earlier
>>>> and didn't notice any changes, and I have yet to logout/login or restart
>>>> my
>>>> machine.
>>>>
>>>> If you would like to change additional Gnome settings you could try
>>>> Ubuntu
>>>> Tweak from ubuntu-tweak.com or use the advanced tool from the repository.
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> Best of luck,
>>>>
>>>> Bruce
>>>
>>> I am not trying to steal the thread here, but rather ask some kind of
>>> a follow-up question. I am still on Ubuntu 10.10 since the upper (and
>>> only) panel in 11.04 couldn't be auto-hided. Is this possible in
>>> 11.10? If so, I might give it another try…
>>>
>>>
>>> Kind regards
>>>
>>> Johnny Rosenberg
>>> ジョニー・ローゼンバーグ
>>>
>>
>> Hi Johnny,
>>
>> It would be best if you started a new thread regarding this, in the
>> meantime, I'll have a look and see if it is possible. However, it might not
>> be possible as it will degrade usability for the user. That means that every
>> time you wanted to see the menu options, you will have to wait for the menu
>> to show from its auto-hide state and then select an option. That would be
>> very annoying for me personally.
>
> The menu itself is hidden at the moment and does not appear till the
> mouse is over it, there is no reason why the panel should auto-appear
> just as quickly as the menu itself appears at the moment, so there
> would be no additional wait involved.
>
> Colin
>
>> Perhaps one of the ways to work around this
>> is to remove the following packages: appmenu-gtk3, appmenu-gtk and
>> appmenu-qt to get the old menu location back.
>> --
>> Best of luck,
>>
>> Bruce
>>
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Hi Colin,

Johnny means using the Gnome 2 option "Autohide" for taskbars where the 
panel is hidden. When the mouse is pointing to the first top pixel it 
will show the taskbar again.

Johnny, I have tried creating the two keys in gconf-editor to have the 
panel hidden by using this article: 
http://atunu.blogspot.com/2008/02/how-to-hide-taskbar-aka-gnome-panel.html 
after logging out and logging in again, it doesn't seem to work. 
Therefore, I would take it that the autohide feature was deprecated 
with Gnome 3. Since 11.04 still uses the Gnome 2 bindings, it might be 
possible to use this feature, perhaps try setting up a 
virtualbox/vmware of 11.04 and try it out or file a bug at 
launchpad.net for this as feature request.

Henri, you will need to log out and log back in again to see the 
changes to unity after you tweaked the two settings.
-- 
Best of luck,

Bruce