Questions tagged [plank]
Plank is elementary OS's default dock. It shows active applications and is usually found at the bottom of the screen.
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Hide certain running app icon in plank
Recently i installed Notejot apps from AppCenter then run it, then i want to hide the icon from plank without closing the app so the widget would stick on my desktop.
If we unchecked "show unpinned" ...
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How to get badge notifications on the dock icon for third-party apps?
In my case it's Caprine (Facebook messenger app). In caprine.desktop I added X-GNOME-UsesNotifications=true and Categories=GNOME;GTK;Network;Chat;, but I only get notifications in the notification ...
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How to edit second Planks settings?
I currently have two Planks running. Enabled in dConf editor: ['dock1', 'dock2']
However I cannot edit the preferences for the second dock.
I have tired right clicking on both docks, they open the ...
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Dock/Plank issue when windows are open
So I've come across something I'm having a hard time figuring out. It seems like the dock/plank at the bottom has a sweet spot/glitch in order to display over an open window. It doesn't matter if it ...
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Can I run multiple instances of plank that only shows the current windows windows?
I currently have 2 plank's running, but they show all of the workspaces current windows.
I need them to show only the current windows tasks.
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How do I remove build-in docklets from Plank?
I found this question and decieded to try it out:
how do i configure the plank in elementary os?
I held the ctrl button, right-clicked the Plank, and selected Preferences.
I then clicked Docklets.
I ...
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How do I fully close apps?
When I'm trying to quit messaging (and some other) apps like Telegram or Discord, I'm unable to do so.
If trying to quit Telegram, upon click on close button in the window corner, it just hides the ...
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icon not fully working
i created two custom icons of slack & sublime text (named: slack.svg & sublime-text.svg)
and i putted them in $HOME/.icons/hicolor/$Size/apps folders
where $Size= (8x8, 16x16, 32x32, 48x48,...
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Quick move plank to primary monitor
Use Juno release. I have a laptop and often connect an external monitor to it. When an external monitor is connected, I make it primary.
I added hotkeys/commands:
Win+PageUp: xrandr --output eDP-1 --...
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Hiding running apps in Plank in Juno
There used to be a setting in Plank settings to hide the unpinned apps, super useful. I cannot find it any more.
Has it been moved in Juno, or removed?
Thanks a lot!
Edit: including a screenshot of ...
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how do i configure the plank in elementary os?
I recently switched to elementary OS and wanted to configure plank (or the dock, whatever it's called), but even though it is installed its not showing up in the applications menu, how do I configure ...
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Top Bar and Dock Icons very large [Elementary OS Juno]
I have a problem, my Elementary OS Juno, it has the top bar and the very large dock icons. The screen resolution has the standard size of my notebook. See my pictures:
But my resolution have 1366 x ...
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Icons are disappearing from Plank
I noticed that some of my icons are randomly disappearing from plank. After a restart, some of my icons are not there. So I have to click again on 'keep in dock' option and it's fine for some time, ...
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Plank extensions
I am trying to mimic the Windows 10 taskbar with Plank dock.
Some of the stuff which I cant figure out
How can I add the slingshot menu or something similar to plank?
Adding the notification icons/...
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How to change size of windows switcher on high DPI screens?
I installed elementary OS Loki 0.4.1 on a Dell XPS 9370 and for the most part of it, the support for high DPI screens is good enough for me. I only had to increase the text size to the highest ...
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Elementary OS 0.4.1 Loki desktop late opening?
I am input my pass and login then elementary desktop is slow loading wingpanel and dock not showing like 1 minute
My system:
4GB DDR2 RAM
INTEL Q6600 PROCESSOR
INTEL DP965LT MOTHERBOARD
And 75MB ...
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Elementary OS 0.4.1 dock problem
This is so much itchy for me because I am like work with clean desktop
My problem is Two brackets on dock other application working normally like chrome a lot of chrome no any problem
My problem ...
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show doc-panel on main and on second screen both
I want to see doc-panel on the main screen and on the second screen also. Not only on 1 of them. Tha screens of course not in mirror mode. One adding another.
Is it possible?
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How to make an appimage appear on aplications?
I use a program called Stremio and I managed to download it and make the stremio.appimage file executable BUT I can't figure out how to get this file into Aplications. At the moment if I want to use ...
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Is there a way to add new docklets to plank?
Can we download and add docklets to plank? Is this possible?
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Loki - Wingpanel Sound Settings Link does not work
My wingpanel sounds icon works correctly however when I click it and then click the "sound settings" link at the bottom of the menu it just bounces and never works. This means I have to go in through ...
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How to set middle scroll up to unminimize and middle scroll down to minimize a window in Plank?
Currently if you want to minimize a window you need to click the corresponding icon at a Plank bar. To unminimize, you can (hovering an icon with a cursor) either scroll up or down.
For me it is more ...
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Plank doesn't remember lock state when I reboot the computer
Every time I restart the computer (or plank), the setting to lock icons automatically gets disabled.
I am using a Samsung Series 9 laptop, 15.4inch, 8gb DDR3L ram, i5-3317U, 128GB SanDisk SSD U100, ...
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in multimonitor set up (Loki)
Not a problem ... more like a suggestion ...,
In multimonitor set up (in my case three) ...
Is there a way to open an app from the Pantheon-plank on a specific monitor?
Or maybe from the command line?
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How to add PlayOnLinux's app shortcut to Plank?
When I run some apps via PlayOnLinux, they are shown in Plank, but there is no way to pin them. How can I do that anyway?
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How to add a JetBrains IDE to the Plank if “Keep in Dock” does not appear
I use several of JetBrains IDEs for software development (IntelliJ, CLion, PyCharm). After updating PyCharm one time, its Plank icon disappeared. Running the .sh file in the PyCharm/bin directory ...
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Plank to behave like Mac OS dock
Is there a way to make the plank behave like the Mac OS dock. What i mean by this is that when the active window is not maximized or not in full-screen mode, then the dock should act as if the hide ...
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Prevent applications from overlapping plank
Is there a way to prevent applications from overlapping the plank in normal mode, but also hide the plank if the application goes into full screen mode?
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(Solved) Plank : the Trash Docklet crashes Plank
When I try to empty the trash bin from the Trash Docklet in Plank (hit CTRL + Right Click on Plank to go the Plank Prefs and Docklets), it often crashes Plank (if not the whole desktop.)
And then, ...
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Disable Plank icon background
So whenever an application is used, plank will change it's background to highlight it. Is there a way i can disable that? For an example when i start firefox there is that orange "shadow" behind it.
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detailed customization of a plank
I am aware of plank --preferences, plank tweeks (with different themes, but I love original one) and the settings file within a .config/ directory. However I would like to change shadow intensity/...
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App Icon not loading in Slingshot
I've set some custom icons (via editing .desktop files) for some apps using png files stored in my home directory. In the Slingshot menu they are showing the generic grey square with gear icon. Yet ...
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Popcorn Time icon duplicate on plank
I have install Popcorn Time from the website and create a Desktop Entry to ~/.local/share/applications and on ~/usr/share/applications for show it on the menu.
Bue when I execute still getting and ...
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Pin program from an other partition to the dock
I've seen different "How to add to dock" post, but non of them fits to my needs.
I have Ubuntu on /dev/sda7 and there I have installed e.g Arduino IDE or CURA via command line.
I am running ...
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Wingpanel icon visible in Plank
A fey days ago the Wingpanel icon showed up in my dock, and it have been there ever since. It does not go away with reboots or anything.
Does someone have a way to hide i from the dock again?
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Plank is too hard to trigger
I want the dock to be at the bottom, and hidden. I like the behavior I have on my home mac (I'm using eOS on my work computer) that shows the dock as soon as the pointer hovers it for some time, or if ...
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Can I add an app launcher (optimally Slingshot) to the Dock?
Is there any way to add a launcher to the dock (optimally Slingshot, but any launcher would be great)? It seems odd to me as a matter of design and efficiency to have to go to two different locations ...
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Desktop takes forever to load after restart
When I restart my OS, I log in. The desktop does not load for a full 2 minutes after typing my password. I can move my mouse and see my desktop background. No apps. Happens pretty much every time I ...
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Plank not starting after reinstall
I am having some issues with Plank, so I uninstalled it by doing apt remove --purge plank. After reinstalling it, I could run the dock by starting it on the command line, but it would not start with ...
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How to reinstall plank and wingpanel from terminal?
I was impatiently changing docks from plank to cairo-dock to docky.
Eventually plank kept turning up so I purged it; the impatience bit meant that I didn't scan what else would be uninstalled or ...
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How can I turn on “show open windows” dock element?
How can I turn on "show open windows" dock element? I deleted this probably accidentally.
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Duplicate Plank
When I turned on my computer plank was duplicated. I have no idea why. I have moved the second plank to the side of the screen to show them both using: plank --preferences.
The left plank is the real ...
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How can I change the default order of Dock icons for new users?
I plan to deploy elementary OS in a medium sized network environment, and wish to change the default config of the elementary desktop for newly created users, specifically the dock items. I've figured ...
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Reporting bugs where? [duplicate]
I want to ask you where the bugs can be reported?
Most annoying, what I found in the Loki release: after update & restart every time the wingpanel and plank stops loading. I had just an empty ...
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How do I dynamically populate slingshot/plank
eOS by default do not allow shortcuts or files to be added on desktop. That's nice. I know there is a workaround to fix this. And I did and ended up with an ugly desktop.
Now, I have a better idea ...
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Startup command to execute a desktop file and show its icon in dock (as if run from Slingshot or Plank)
This is about the icon seen in the dock when running a command at startup.
I have a terminal command that runs at startup. (It's related to CPU temp monitoring, and I need it in terminal because I ...
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Two Icons showing in Dock for Minecraft using Custom .desktop file
I've created a Minecraft desktop entry, which works fine, but when I launch Minecraft it creates a new icon in my dock. I know that this isn't really an issue but I switched to elementary OS because ...
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Duplicate Plank Icon for Custom Launcher
I've created a custom .desktop file to launch an Android Emulator bash script file. I've successfully gotten the file to launch the emulator but I get two icons in Plank. I've read about this ...
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Too long to power up [duplicate]
I guess this may be a repost, but I'm using a very good pc(i7-4720HQ, 8gb ram, gtx 950m 4gb) and after I enter my password is taking like 1-2 min for dock and wingpanel to show up. Does anyone know ...
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Cogwheel icon on dock when using alt + tab
In the Dock I can see all the icons for the applications I have open.
But there is just a icon with a cogwheel for some applications (Vivaldi, Intellij and Postman in this case) when I cycle through ...
