Moving the launch/task bar at the bottom of the screen in Ubuntu - 16.04

In this post we will see how to make the launch bar that appears on the left hand side usually, to appear at the bottom  of the screen

Before you proceed, please check gsettings utility is installed in your system...

open a terminal and type the following command at the prompt...

> which gsettings

the above command should give the path of the gsettings executable

if not, install the utility as said below...

> sudo apt-get update

> sudo apt-get install gsettings-desktop-schemas

The following are the command(s) would help you to have the launch bar at the bottom of the screen...

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

Open a terminal and Copy Paste the above command(with in quotes) at the prompt and execute it(I mean press Enter), as a result you will see the launch bar appearing at the bottom of the screen.

How to bring it back to the original position i.e at the left hand side?

It is as simple as you made the launch bar to appear at the bottom...

Copy Paste the below command at the command prompt and execute it

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

Well that is all about changing the position of the launch bar in Ubuntu 16.04

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Hope this post helped you.. thank you