kinka-dzs
October 20th, 2011, 03:39 AM
In case there is someone out there that like me is ok with unity but not entirely satisfied here is how you add the bottom panel:
-) check if you have installed gnome-panel, otherwise
sudo apt-get install gnome-panel
-) open up a terminal and launch it to have a preview on how it looks
-) now if you notice the top panel is hiding the unity one, so you can remove it (since gnome 3 you need to do this with ALT key + right click and then remove)
-) install it as a startup application, simply go to startup applications, add, give it a name and in the command line just put gnome-panel . That's it.
Now I have set up my desktop as i wanted, also using cairo dock instead of unity, actually i can use both, just modifying the visibility of the unity bar (the one on the left) to be always hidden and unreveal after a second (or by pressing the super key). So if i put my mouse on the left i get the cairo dock, if i wait a bit more i have unity. Set up screen number to 4 oriz, 1 vertical and i have compiz with the good old cube. now finally happy. :-)
-) check if you have installed gnome-panel, otherwise
sudo apt-get install gnome-panel
-) open up a terminal and launch it to have a preview on how it looks
-) now if you notice the top panel is hiding the unity one, so you can remove it (since gnome 3 you need to do this with ALT key + right click and then remove)
-) install it as a startup application, simply go to startup applications, add, give it a name and in the command line just put gnome-panel . That's it.
Now I have set up my desktop as i wanted, also using cairo dock instead of unity, actually i can use both, just modifying the visibility of the unity bar (the one on the left) to be always hidden and unreveal after a second (or by pressing the super key). So if i put my mouse on the left i get the cairo dock, if i wait a bit more i have unity. Set up screen number to 4 oriz, 1 vertical and i have compiz with the good old cube. now finally happy. :-)