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Docky: Remove docky icon (Anchor)

Posted: Sat Feb 25, 2012 6:13 pm
by ^rooker
[PROBLEM]
I've recently used "Docky" when installing GNU/Linux computers for others, in order to provide them with a user-interface which is independent from their window manager.

Now, it looks nice and everything, but I wanted to get rid of the leftmost "Anchor" icon - which is Docky's own icon.

[SOLUTION]
There's no option to hide it in Docky's settings, but in the gconf registry:
  • Start the "gconf-editor" (on none-Gnome systems: install the package "gconf-editor" first)
  • Go to the entry "apps/docky-2/docky/items/DockyItem" (inside gconf-editor)
  • Uncheck "ShowDockyItem"
  • Restart Docky
That's it.
If you now want to edit Docky's properties, without having to re-enable the icon, just right-click on the separator lines between application icons and "Docklets". Then you can choose "settings", which opens the default settings catalogue.

Voila! :)