Ubuntu - Moving Launcher to the bottom of the screen

Finally the default Unity Desktop’s left launcher panel can be moved to the bottom of screen in Ubuntu 16.04 LTS Xenial Xerus.

To move the launcher to the bottom of the screen,

gsettings set com.canonical.Unity.Launcher launcher-position Bottom

To revert back, run:

gsettings set com.canonical.Unity.Launcher launcher-position Left

Using apt with a proxy in Ubuntu 10.10

1. Edit the fiel /etc/apt/apt.conf. Create one if it does not exist.
2. Add the following lines after making changes to the proxy server.


Acquire::http::Proxy "http://proxy.example.com/";
Acquire::ftp::Proxy "http://proxy.example.com/";