It’s been quite some time, but today I feel like showing my Ubuntu desktop in my lab’s PC 
Before that, here is some tips and tricks you might find useful:
- If you’re using cairo-dock, you might want it to be appear and accessible all the time to show it off
or so that you can access it easily. Setting it always on top sometimes not a good solution because sometimes you need to click something on the bottom of the window application but cairo will be on your way. One solution I like is to make cairo behave like mac’s dock: Applications always open above the dock. This can be easily done by
Right click on the dock -> Cairo Dock -> Configure. Use the Advance Mode. In the Position category -> check "Reserve space at the edge of the screen of the dock" -> Apply ->OK.That’s it! Now you can maximize your application window without covering cairo-dock.
- If you’re using screenlets, you might realize that everytime you do “Show Desktop” the screenlets will also go minimized. In this PC I don’t want to treat the screenlets as widgets like I did in my laptop, but the minimized behaviour’s quite annoying. Here is the solution:
Open gconf-editor (from terminal) -> then go to /apps/compiz/general/allscreens/options/ -> Uncheck "hide_skip_taskbar_windows". That’s it!
Cairo-Dock
Screenlets
Desktop Cube
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