Sparky Launcher is a small tool which installs *vala-panel* and provides custom settings to *vala-panel* of:

• auto-launch
• auto-hide
• background transparency (if desktop compositor is on)
• favorite applications dock-like panel
• settings GUI via the *vala-panel*
• placing on left vertical side

 sudo apt install sparky-launcher

It launches automatically after login to your desktop environment.

If you would like to use the tool on a window manager, you have to add the command to the WM startup script:

sparky-launcher