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How can I customise plank?
Plank has a hidden settings window for developers/OEMs.
Hold down Control and right click anywhere on the dock
Select "Preferences"
Go nuts
Please be aware that some of these options will lead to ...
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How do I move the dock to the right of screen on loki?
You can get the plank preferences by doing either Ctrl+right-click on the plank, or from a command line plank --preferences.
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What is "Pressure Reveal" in dock preferences?
Pressure reveal is a feature designed to make it harder to accidentally un-hide the dock. Instead of revealing any time the cursor hits the bottom row of pixels on your display, it reveals when you ...
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Desktop takes forever to load after restart
A solution (or at least temporary workaround) proposed in the bug discussion
- https://bugs.launchpad.net/elementaryos/+bug/1596377 - is to rename the file:
/etc/xdg/autostart/at-spi-dbus-bus....
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Can I switch between windows of the same app using plank?
You can either scroll over the icon in plank, or right-click it for a context menu which includes open windows of the application.
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Adding an executable to Plank
Create .desktop extension file in ~/.local/share/applications. For example:
scratch-text-editor ~/.local/share/applications/isoplex.desktop
And write this in there:
[Desktop Entry]
Version=1.0
Type=...
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How can I open an application without showing it in dock?
It is possible not to show the task list in the dock.
Hold Control and right-click anywhere on the dock
Select "Preferences"
Select the "Behavior" tab
Under the heading "Item Management", disable "...
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How to get a transparent background for plank?
Ctrl + right click on a plank icon
In this menu you can now click on preferences (of plank)
There you can choose between some themes...choose 'transparent'
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How can I customise plank?
It is quite easy to fine-tune the settings of Plank.
Navigate to ~/.config/plank/dock and open the settings file in your preferred text editor. You can view hidden folders by pressing Ctrl+H.
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How can I open an application without showing it in dock?
The dock of elementary OS is plank. So I analyzed the plank source and found the reason why it could not process skip taskbar option of windows.
So I modified two parts of the plank to do it.
First, ...
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Plank magnifying effect
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ricotz/docky
sudo apt update
sudo apt install --reinstall plank
killall plank
plank --preferences
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How can I get Plank and Wingpanel on both monitors without Mirroring Screens
Heath Paddock has since release an application called multiplank that does the configuration automatically.
To install the app from his PPA:
sudo apt-add-repository ppa:heathbar/multiplank
sudo apt-...
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How can I access hidden plank settings?
You can still change them - on any icon on Plank, just do CTRL+RightClick, then proceed to "Preferences"
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Something strange going on with plank
Run plank --preferences and select "Show Unpinned" on Behaviour-tab.
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How to add Firefox to Dock?
To get an icon on plank (and in slingshot) an app needs to have a corresponding .desktop file in /usr/share/applications/.
The desktop file also handles MimeTypes and lets you specify additional menu ...
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How to change or replace the dock?
There is a settings menu for the plank, but it is very limited. You can find it by right clicking on the plank, but you need to make sure you aren't clicking on an icon. This can prove quite tricky.
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Is there any way to lock the dock?
Yes, this is possible. You can open the dock's preferences by right-clicking on a free space of the dock. Probably you will need several tries not to open context menu from an icon - but believe me, ...
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How do I move the dock to the right of screen on loki?
Achieve this task by...
Hold Ctrl+right click anywhere on the dock
Select Preferences
Select Position drop down box
Select desired option
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Something wrong with my panel and dock popover
There seems to be a problem with the last update of xserver-xorg-core-hwe-18.04 or xserver-xorg-legacy-hwe-18.04 with Radeon graphics cards, which break the rendering of boxes and tooltips.
They just ...
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How can I access hidden plank settings?
Its hard to rightclick to get the preference. You can do it from the command line
plank --preferences
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How to get a transparent background for plank?
Open the Applications menu in the search field type plank --preferences and then select Theme -> Transparent.
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keyboard shortcut to force dock to appear
Unfortunately no. However, if necessary you can make a request for this feature at https://launchpad.net/elementaryos . Otherwise, you can follow these steps to (kind of) peek at the dock:
Hold down ...
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How to reinstall plank and wingpanel from terminal?
Try in a terminal window
sudo apt install wingpanel plank
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How to add a JetBrains IDE to the Plank if "Keep in Dock" does not appear
After installing another IDE from the JetBrains suite, I saw the installer mention that I could add the program to my Applications drawer by going to Tools > Create Desktop Entry...
As far as I can ...
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How can I add an executable file to the dock?
Or as it says here:
Run the app, then rt-click on app in dock, and select 'Keep in dock'.
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