taskbar cannot be moved to bottom + FSL installation not possible

Question

I just installed Ubuntu on a Windows (dual-use) computer and trying to change the position of the task bar with

gsettings set com.canonical.Unity.Launcher launcher-position Bottom

and have no response from Computer. Is sth ( a driver, an app?) missing?

Also, trying install FSL with Ubuntu 18.04 (installed Python as recommended) and after fslinstaller.py --> "command not found" although I downloaded it.

Does anyone have an idea how to help?

Possible duplicate of How to shift side bar (Ubuntu dock) to bottom on Ubuntu 17.10 and later. You are using Ubuntu 18.04 which comes with GNOME instead of Unity, that's why that gsettings set command has no impact. — pomsky, Jul 24 '18 at 07:39
Also please avoid asking multiple questions in a single question. It is not supported here and questions with multiple questions are usually closed as "too broad". — pomsky, Jul 24 '18 at 07:44

Bernard Wei · Accepted Answer · 2018-07-24T00:42:20.970

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Try installing Gnome Tweaks and Dash to Panel from the Ubuntu store. Enable the panel extension from the Gnome Tweak, then change the panel position to bottom.

As to running the python installation script, make sure the script is executable before running it.

chmod a+x fslinstaller.py
./fslinstaller.py

edited Jul 24 '18 at 00:42

answered Jul 24 '18 at 00:24

Bernard Wei

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Thank you! I did install Ubuntu Tweak tool, but it is not responding although I picked up the "bottom" position. – user852814 Jul 24 '18 at 00:26
@user852814 Did you install dash to panel as well? I added a screenshot – Bernard Wei Jul 24 '18 at 00:27
No, I will try now as you advise! – user852814 Jul 24 '18 at 00:28
@user852814 It lets you combine the dock and panel into one, and place them on the top, or on the bottom like windows 10. – Bernard Wei Jul 24 '18 at 00:30
Do you know how to solve also my second issue with FSL :) – user852814 Jul 24 '18 at 00:33
@user852814 I've just updated my answer above; that's probably is your problem. – Bernard Wei Jul 24 '18 at 00:42
I must be missing sth very obvious as it doesn't work. It says chmod cannot access fslinstaller.py: No such file or directory, althouth the " .py file" is in my downloads – user852814 Jul 24 '18 at 00:50
Can you see the file when you do a "ls -l"? make sure you cd to the right directory first. – Bernard Wei Jul 24 '18 at 00:53
You are so nice!!! Thank you a lot! It turns out I was not even in the directory! I just started with Ubuntu today! Thank you a thousand times! – user852814 Jul 24 '18 at 01:03
Good luck, 18.04 is a very nice version to get started. – Bernard Wei Jul 24 '18 at 03:26
Using "Dash to panel" just to move the dock to bottom is an overkill TBH. – pomsky Jul 24 '18 at 07:50

taskbar cannot be moved to bottom + FSL installation not possible

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