Dash sometimes stuck open; how to force it to close without logging out [closed]

I've had a problem with the Dash bar in Ubuntu (11.04) Unity getting "stuck open". It happens when I'm dragging songs to a playlist in Clementine.

In any case, once it's stuck open, I haven't found any way to close it without logging out and logging back in. (I've tried going into about:config and changing the hide condition, but this doesn't help once the dash is stuck open).

So my question is: how to force the dash to close once it's stuck open?

[The issue itself is a bug in unity: see ]

1 Answer

I've been able to press ctrl+alt+F1 to switch to a console. (By default you can choose to use F1-F6 for a console.) Then just log in and run:

unity --replace

That restarts all of unity, including the dash. Press ctrl+alt+F7 to get back to the desktop GUI.