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When using drag and drop the launcher bar reveals and will not hide unless I close the program.

Is their a fix?

htorque
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alfred
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  • will you please explain what actually happened? – shantanu Jul 02 '11 at 10:27
  • @shantanu I face the same issue when running java based programs, Such as Netbeans. If one of the windows (in netbeans e.g.output, tasks) dragged this is a sure thing to happen. This happened with LibreOffice - Draw but i couldn't reproduce it. Dragging other component of a program e.g firefox tab or desktop icon do solve the matter – Niroshan Jul 30 '11 at 19:11

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Run this in a Terminal (Ctrl+Alt+T):

unity --replace

That works for me on Ubuntu 12.04.

Eliah Kagan
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charliesan
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  • BEWARE! This worked for me, but crashed a number of running applications, including firefox. – Him Dec 15 '17 at 15:37
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Drag a desktop icon a bit.

Helps against the stuck launcher bar with Opera on a 32-bit system. Another solution would be to set the launcher not to hide in the first place (that's my solution for now). See How can I configure Unity's launcher auto-hide behavior?

There are also bug reports:

  • Opera: bug 741731 (note the "Won't Fix" as it's a bug in Opera)
  • Another one - not sure what's the actual status on this one.
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htorque
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  • I ran into the "not hiding anymore" Unity/Gnome Ubuntu dock/launcher as well and found this answer here to be really helpful: just move one of the icons on the launcher a bit - that seems to reset autohide. At least for me, the Unity-dock resumed autohide afterwards. (I don't know why the dock autohide stopped in the first place, could be some hibernation cycles..) – isync Oct 13 '13 at 12:11
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I ran into the same issue on 14.04. It seems this can happen with the four-finger slide gesture. If this is the case, simply do a four-finger slide to the left to slide the bar back into place.

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Its not uncommon for the launcher to get stuck. Opening the dash with the Super Key seems to fix it for me and its way better than killing a program.

If you can reproduce it, you might want to post a bug report.

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Same problem when using Netbeans (Java) : when I drag tabs to reorganize them, the launcher appears and gets stuck (ie wont hide anymore). Could not fix the problem, but found 2 solutions : - drag and drop Firefox tabs around - drag something to the laucher

Marcos BDM
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I had the same problem after I moved icons around and opened the dash with the super key. I simply logged out then logged back it. Fixed it right up.

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