found hint on auto-hide: http://askubuntu.com/questions/9865/how-can-i-configure-unitys-launcher-auto-hide-behavior thus went for compiz settings manager...
found things like work around keystrokes noted there... <Alt/Super>, *** <Alt>F1 ***, <Alt><Tab>, <Alt><Shift><Tab>, ... (*** => does show the launcher to you even in such a setup) setting opacity to 1 and hide to never did me a good job for now. other options like icon size do sound interesting but are not part of the work around for the topic here. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu-X, which is subscribed to xorg in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/971018 Title: Auto-hide Unity Launcher will not reveal when mouse pushed to left side in VirtualBox or VMware To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/unity/+bug/971018/+subscriptions _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-x-swat Post to : ubuntu-x-swat@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-x-swat More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp