Hide the Docky launcher (from that very dock) in Ubuntu-Xenial-based Linux

Question

I want to use the Docky dock in Xfce (Mint 18.1).

Is there a way to hide its anchor icon?

This old solution doesn't work, as there is no apps/docky-2/docky/items/DockyItem in Dconf editor on this system.

Answer 1

You probably figured it out by now, but you can't get to it via dconf-editor. You have to install and use gconf-editor.

1. Install gconf-editor via your distro (i.e. sudo apt-fast gconf-editor)
2. Run it and navigate to apps->docky-2->Docky->Items->DockyItem
3. Uncheck ShowDockyItem
4. Restart Docky if the anchor doesn't go away on it's own.

If all goes well it should end up looking like this:

Answer 2

You're right. apps/docky-2/docky/items/DockyItem is not visible in dconf-editor now. But setting it through command line still works.

gconftool-2 --type Boolean --set /apps/docky-2/Docky/Items/DockyItem/ShowDockyItem False

Get it back with:

gconftool-2 --type Boolean --set /apps/docky-2/Docky/Items/DockyItem/ShowDockyItem True