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Although the Unity launcher is very useful for general use computing it can get in the way when playing windows games in Wine. Here is a trick I use to disable the Unity launcher in wine
dconf write /org/compiz/profiles/unity/plugins/unityshell/show-launcher '""' <run wine command> dconf write /org/compiz/profiles/unity/plugins/unityshell/show-launcher '"<Super>"'