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I am customizing an os an i wanted to get the docky on the side from the terminal! Is There an way for that.

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Assuming you are referring to Docky, you can use gconf-editor for that. Press Alt+F2 and type in gconf-editor to bring up the Gnome configuration editor. If it is not installed, type:

sudo apt-get install gconf-editor

in a terminal (Ctrl+Alt+T).

You can then navigate to Apps -> Gnome Do -> Preferences -> Docky -> Utilities -> Dock Preferences(or whatever the path may be) and you should be able to select the "Position" item and change it to whichever position you like.

EDIT: I noticed that you want to be able to do this from the command line, you can use gconftool-2 in much the same way. e.g. 

gconftool-2 --set /apps/docky-2/Docky/Interface/DockPreferences/Dock1/Position --type=string Top

(The path may be different on Ubuntu, as I'm currently running Arch and don't have access to an Ubuntu machine)

Source

Source 2, find some cool information on using GConf here.

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  • Please edit the path for gconftool-2 if you are on Ubuntu and know the correct path for the Docky position setting. – nixpower Jun 26 '15 at 21:42