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[Ryan Gauger <rtgkid@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 06/12/2012 04:28 AM, Philipp Wendler wrote:
> Hello,
>
> when I set the unity launcher to auto hide, I cannot get it to appear 
> using my fingers or the tablet pen on the touch screen, I have to use 
> the mouse/touchpad. I tried setting the sensitivity to high, but it 
> didn't help.
>
> I see two problems here:
>
> First, on a machine without mouse and keyboard, the user is stuck with 
> a pretty unusable desktop after (accidentially?) setting the launcher 
> to auto hide and closing the settings dialogue. I am not sure if there 
> is Ubuntu for such devices currently, but it is not hard to imagine 
> that this will exist in the future. For me on my convertible laptop, 
> it was at least inconvenient to have to turn the display to laptop 
> mode and revert the setting.
>
> Second, I'd really like to use the auto-hide launcher with touch. In 
> tablet mode, my resolution is 768x1366, so every horizontal pixel 
> counts, and the launcher uses at least 5% of them. As the launcher is 
> not movable to another screen edge (I would have plenty of space on 
> the top and bottom), I would like to set it to auto hide. But of 
> course I can't always turn the display in order to switch windows etc.
>
> So please consider adding a method to make the auto-hide launcher 
> useful on touch screens. Perhaps some sort of gesture? Or is there 
> already such a way, and I just didn't discover it?
>
> Greetings, Philipp
To fix this issue without having to connect to a mouse, you can open up 
a terminal (if your tablet has the ability to do that without using 
dash), and open up system settings through the terminal.