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When I open qBittorrent or calibre they show for a moment in the dock and then go away. I am using qBittorrent v3.3.1 which is in the official repository and calibre v2.70 which I downloaded from calibre website.

I searched around and found two questions relevant to my problem. This question is similar but the solution does not work for me. I already had the Show Unpinned option ticked.

This question deals with multiple icons of same application.

I found a workaround for qBittorrent. There is a qBittorrent icon at the top when it is running. Clicking on this icon brings up a menu with a option Hide. Clicking Hide twice in this menu brings back qBittorrent icon in plank.

UPDATE:

The list of softwares seems to be growing. Now mousepad and virtualbox also do not show up in the dock.

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  • Does this happen if you try to run these applications from a guest account as well?
    – lemonslice
    Dec 6, 2016 at 22:38
  • I tested with various softwares. Only Codeblocks and Texmaker seems to have this problem in guest account.
    – Ibraheem Moosa
    Dec 7, 2016 at 1:07
  • There has been a plank update yesterday (to 0.11.3), in my installation this bug does not happen any more. Can you check it for yours?
    – lemonslice
    Dec 8, 2016 at 19:58
  • No that does not solve the problem in my computer.
    – Ibraheem Moosa
    Dec 10, 2016 at 12:59
  • same issue here, did anyone solve this issue?
    – Tsulatsi Tamim
    Apr 7, 2017 at 3:08

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Same issue. Currently I go to dock preference (ctrl + Right Click), comportment, and I disable/enable Show unpinned. But it's not a solution of course.

It's boring but it's work (or Alt+Tab)

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  • no problem. it's not realy an answer but just for wait a fix or something better.
    – Shining
    Dec 10, 2016 at 12:15
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For Calibre go to preferences/ look and feel and enable tray icon. That makes it stay in plank too.

I haven't tried this for other apps.

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  • This is a possible workaround, a real solution would be nicer to have...
    – Rafael
    Dec 6, 2016 at 15:42
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the simplest solution to me currently is to make plank strict between workspace and switch the workspace ,on ubuntu, or linux mint: ctrl+alt+(←or→). it refreshes the plank.

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@Ibraheem Moosa The solution is quite simple. The only thing you have to do is edit the file /usr/share/applications/calibre-gui.desktop with root rights and change the line:

Exec=calibre --detach %F

To

Exec=calibre

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  • It doesn't work.
    – Rafael
    Dec 6, 2016 at 15:42

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