unity panel make sticky

[Bruce Pieterse]

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. 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