Ubuntu netbook edition or desktop edition ?

[Donald Talbert]

On Tue, 2011-06-28 at 17:43 +0100, Avi Greenbury wrote:
> Donald Talbert wrote:
> > Really... its about 20pixels your talking with tweaking, . I don't see
> > how there's a loss horizontally? The bar is only there when no
> > programs need that space, you know that right? 
> 
> Mine doesn't autohide, but this could be to do with previous fiddling
> with config on my part I suppose. Not that I've found a way to undo it,
> though...
> 
> > I mean really guys, if your going to cut me down on giving honest
> > advice to the OP on which version (He didn't specify customizing,
> > tweaking, etc) he should use for his netbook, then he might as well
> > just not start x, maybe even rebuild his kernel while hes at it to
> > save a few MB of ram. ;)
> >
> > So, if you already knew your own answer why did you ask Cybe? I'm here
> > to help, hence the "technical support only mailing list" not debate.
> > It almost seems like some people jump in just because its unity, hah,
> > just sayin'...
> 
> You're not being cut down at all! Certainly I didn't mean any malice, 
> I don't think Cybe *knew* the answer - I think he is (as I am)
> interested in knowing if there is scope for more vertical space in
> Unity. I've long been confused by the tendency for shorter, wider
> monitors on laptops and PCs.
> 
> It's a discussion, not an argument :)
> 
> -- 
> Avi
> 

Well, I apologize then for that. Yeah the wide monitor size they do is a
bit annoying since they give sometimes hardly give you enough height at
times. ...But for your problem with the unity launcher not hiding this
should fix your problem.

gconftool-2 -st int /desktop/unity-2d/launcher/use_strut 0
gconftool-2 -st int /desktop/unity-2d/launcher/hide_mode 1

Hope that helps.
-- 
Donald Talbert <donaldtalbert at gmail.com>