any way to get unity to auto hide?

**nutpants** · April 27th, 2012

seriouly im giving unity a go.. but it just takes up too much space on my small screen..
is there no way to get it to auto hide so my web browser and other apps can have 100% of the full screen.

thanks for any help.

**newbie-user** · April 27th, 2012

Go to System Settings, then Appearance, and there are some options for auto-hiding the bar.

**davcav** · April 27th, 2012

From the Dash:
Type: System Settings
Choose: Appearance
Choose: Behaviour
Select: Autohide "ON"

Best of luck.

**cryptotheslow** · April 27th, 2012

Additionally, while in there reduce the launcher icon size to 32 - this will reduce the width of the launcher and also allow you to fit more icons on there without having to resort to scrolling down the bar.

**joetait** · April 28th, 2012

In case this is the source of you confusion, I believe that in 12.04 the bar will either always auto-hide, or never auto-hide (where as before it would auto-hide when ever a window was maximised). So if you are a looking for a setting as before, it may not exist, and if it does it is certainly not trivial to implement.

**Johnny3** · April 28th, 2012

Right click on the desk top behavior.
Good Luck and God Bless Johnny3 65+++

**rosswmcgee** · April 28th, 2012

I now use the second download on this address. This makes my work easier when switching between spreadsheets, web sites, and calc.

But I did not know you could reduce the

icons size, that is neat.

http://www.webupd8.org/2012/04/real-...-launcher.html