unity 5 launcher duplicated on multiple screens

[psypher]

Since updating Precise I now have several issues with the Unity launcher.

1. It has been duplicated on both my screens, I have 2 launchers. Please tell me is not a feature and there will be an option to turn it off completely.

2. The mouse behavior is broken. When you move your mouse between screens it gets stuck at the edge of the screen by the duplicated unnecessary launcher and you have to jerk it to get it loose. Happens when going both directions. Extremely annoying and breaks work flow immensely.

3. The launcher autohide is broken. When hidden by a fullscreen app, you can't just move your mouse to anywhere on the edge to reveal. You kind of have to move it against the edge and slide it up or down to reveal. Works only sometimes.

4. The unity settings options to make the reveal spot top left or the side edge does not function at all. Only turning off autohide works.I have turned this on now as trying to reveal the launcher all the time is too taxing. But now I have 2 launchers taking up space.

Please let me know what logs you want as I am unable to use "ubuntu-bug unity" to log this bug. I have logged another bug about that issue: https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/924181

Description: Ubuntu precise (development branch)
Release: 12.04

unity:
  Installed: 5.2.0~+bzr1884ubuntu0+626
  Candidate: 5.2.0~+bzr1884ubuntu0+626
  Version table:
 *** 5.2.0~+bzr1884ubuntu0+626 0
        500 http://ppa.launchpad.net/unity-team/staging/ubuntu/ precise/main amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     5.1.0-hud2 0
        500 http://ppa.launchpad.net/unity-team/hud/ubuntu/ precise/main amd64 Packages
     5.0.0-0ubuntu3 0
        500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ precise/main amd64 Packages

[Hernando Torque (htorque)]

Please don't report multiple issues in one bug report.

Ad 1.: This is the expected behavior, so this is rather a wishlist kind of report.
Ad 2. + 3.: This is bug 923749.
Ad 4.: This is bug 839677.

[Hernando Torque (htorque)]

Marking the distro task invalid, as those packages aren't yet in Precise.

[psypher (psypher246)]

I was not sure if they were separate issues as they all cropped up in one update with unity. Thanks for clearing it up.

Please can there be an option added to Unity Settings to turn off the duplicate launchers. I understand that some people want it. I don't see the point or a way to easily launch it without having a feature like bug 2 and 3 above. Seems to me you would either launch it all the time as moving between windows or struggle to launch it at all while trying to find that magic pixel.

[psypher (psypher246)]

HI Hernando,

I understand how this works now. With reveal pressure and edge velocity stop settings I was able to minimize the annoyances which were brought up with a duplicated launcher.

Please still consider the option to turn it off though.

Thanks

[Omer Akram (om26er)]

there can't literally be an option to disable every new feature/behavior change

[psypher (psypher246)]

Surely something as HUGE as adding duplicate launchers on multiple screens should have the option to disable. Has unity not received enough criticism for not being customizable and then have massive new features added to an LTS version? Up until now the expected behavior of the launcher is to be ONLY present on one screen. Now it's unnecessarily duplicated and causing problems with my work flow. I stongly dissagree with your point and think that adding more custom options is in fact what everyone wants and is missing in unity. Why alienate more users???

[psypher (psypher246)]

This bug may be closed, unity 5.8 introduced the feature to have an option where to have the launcher.