How to stop the System Tray (Unity) to stop "auto hiding"?

[stinkeye]

Doesn't hapeen on my 11.10 install in unity 2d.
Try creating a new user account and see if it happens when logged into
that account.

[Krytarik]

If you are only able to log in to the ubuntu-2d session
run this command to set the launcher as never hide.

gsettings set com.canonical.Unity2d.Launcher hide-mode 0

I am now able to keep the "system tray" over other windows - however unlike in Windows the applications are now going behind the system tray! I would like the app windows to never go behind the system tray, and respect the system tray as a boundary, similar to how the display area boundaries are respected.

Please see my earlier post here:

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.p...4#post11800594

Regards.