Compile Unity without launcher I would like to modify unity to not show the launcher (left side bar) at all. I'm not looking for any solution that would let the launcher be in some cases visible. I really want it to completly disappear. It's a gift for my fiance and I want to achieve the highest possible Woman Acceptance Factor for her linux laptop which is running a docky dock with fancy icons that make it look like being from that known and fruity company.  Any hints about which packages and which source files I should study?   I'm hoping it to be as easy as commenting out the line with "unity.launcher.show()" and recompiling :-)  Thank you!
How do I remove the Unity launcher? How can we remove the launcher that come with Unity on this new Ubuntu version ?
How to completely remove desktop? I wanted to switch to Xfce (I had KDE and GNOME installed), and I did this :    sudo apt-get install xubuntu-desktop sudo apt-get remove kubuntu-desktop sudo apt-get remove ubuntu-desktop sudo apt-get autoremove   but to my surprise, I could still pick gnome, kde plasma, etc during the log in.  So, how do I completely remove KDE and GNOME desktops?