auto-hide launcher

[TerryWJ]

I need help. I am using Ubuntu 12.04.2. I want to set the launcher to auto-hide. Nothing works. I have tried using CCSM, Ubuntu Tweak, Tweak Tool, Unsettings, and MyUnity. On these apps, as soon as I click auto-hide, within a second it automatically goes back to always show launcher. I need help. I even tried Google to see if I can find a solution. HELP????????

[GreatDanton]

Copy paste this in terminal, restart computer, and try again.

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get upgrade

As far as I know you don't need aditional programs for auto hiding launcher. Auto hide launcher option should be in system settings/appearance

[TerryWJ]

I have done that twice now. Nothing.

[mc4man]

I need help. I am using Ubuntu 12.04.2. I want to set the launcher to auto-hide. Nothing works. I have tried using CCSM, Ubuntu Tweak, Tweak Tool, Unsettings, and MyUnity. On these apps, as soon as I click auto-hide, within a second it automatically goes back to always show launcher. I need help. I even tried Google to see if I can find a solution. HELP????????

Do you have all those apps installed ?

I'd try completlely removing all the blue ones, then restarting.
After restart, right click on Desktop > Change Desktop Background > Behavior, set auto-hide there & see what happens

[TerryWJ]

I just now did what you suggested. As soon as I clicked the ON button, it shifted back to OFF.

[mc4man]

A bit of a mystery -
If you were to login to a guest session can you change the launcher to autohide? (thru the right click on Desktop , ect.

Assuming you are using unity, not unity-2d, you could check with

env | grep -i "^desktop_session" && env | grep -i "xdg_current_desktop" && env | grep -i "compiz"

should return 3 like
DESKTOP_SESSION=ubuntu
XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP=Unity
COMPIZ_CONFIG_PROFILE=ubuntu

So if in a ubuntu session (unity) can you write to this file?,

 gedit ~/.gconf/apps/compiz-1/plugins/unityshell/screen0/options/%gconf.xml

if so look for this line & change red to 1 (blue will be different, doesn't matter

<entry name="launcher_hide_mode" mtime="1364055559" type="int" value="0"/>

Then save & log out/in

Additionally -
if you open ccsm from a terminal what profile does it show being used, should say -
Profile : unity

Worst case you could also try resetting unity -

unity --reset &