Questions tagged [ubuntu-dock]
A customizable dock shipped with Ubuntu with Ubuntu 17.10 and later. The Dock contains icons of running and favorite applications and a Show Applications icon.
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Move Ubuntu Dock to primary monitor in Ubuntu 20.04 Focal Fossa [duplicate]
I've just installed Ubuntu 20.04 Focal Fossa and I have a dual monitor setup (laptop + external monitor). I want the top bar and the task bar (Ubuntu Dock) on the external monitor.
Problem is that if ...
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Not showing running application on the same added favourite app
I installed Firefox Developer in ubuntu 20.04 and added to the dock. Then I added it as a favourite app. But whenever I click the app icon it launches but it showed as another app like this.
How to ...
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How can I show tasks only of current virtual desktop in Ubuntu dock? [duplicate]
Is there way I can only show the tasks which are running in the Ubuntu dock which are running on the current virtual desktop instead of showing all the tasks?
I'm on Ubuntu 20.04.
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Ubuntu 20.04, appimage in dock adds a new instance upon launch [duplicate]
I got 3 appimage I'd like to launch via the Ubuntu dock on 20.04.
I've manage to add them to the dock, with the correct icons I've downloaded apart.
I'm sure it is possible to find the icon in the ...
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Can't display Ubuntu dock on only 1 monitor [duplicate]
My Ubuntu dock was only displayed on my primary monitor.
Then, I set Settings > Appearance > Dock > Show on: All displays
Now, I can't change it back to my primary monitor.
I have 3 monitors. When I ...
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How to stop Gnome dock reappearing when a window is full screen?
I have my dock set to auto-hide, but when a window is full screen with a game it reappears briefly whenever I move the mouse towards that side of the screen, even when the mouse is captured by the ...
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How do I completely get rid of the dock from GNOME Shell? [duplicate]
I have tried using
sudo apt remove gnome-shell-extension-ubuntu-dock
but the dock is still present when I open the Activities overview and show all programs. How do I completely get rid of it?
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Why did Firefox, Mailspring, and other applications disappear from the dock in Ubuntu 20.04?
After upgrading to Ubuntu 20.04, I noticed upon reboot that Firefox, Mailspring, and several other apps are missing from both my Ubuntu dock and the Activities launcher. I can launch them by hand, but ...
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Icons take several seconds to appear/disappear from the dock when the app is opened/closed
When opening and closing an application, there is a delay of up to 30 seconds before that icon appears or disappears from the dock. I'm running Ubuntu 20.04. It occurs when running both free (Nouveau) ...
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Ubuntu Dock is showing in all the displays [duplicate]
I recently updated to Ubuntu 20.04 LTS, in my Dell XPS 13. I connected an external monitor and used it as the primary monitor. And initially, the dock was in the external monitor only. Then I went to ...
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Remove system folders from Ubuntu Dock and Nautilus [duplicate]
I upgraded from 18.04 to 20.04 a few days ago. After 2 or 3 days with no reason the icons of two directories appear on my application panel as mounted volumes (screenshot below): root directory / and ...
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(xRDP) Desktop looks different when connecting remotely
I've looked around online about this issue and haven't really found anything that helps me. I'm relatively new to Ubuntu and recently set up a tower so that I could connect to it over the internet via ...
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Ubuntu 20.04 Chromium Snap: cannot pin Webapp shortcuts to dock [duplicate]
If you're on Ubuntu 20.04 and create a webapp through Chromium Snap (via menu, 'More tools', 'Create shortcut...', tag 'Open as window', right-click the .desktop file on your desktop and choose 'Allow ...
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Two docks appearing after mac os customization [duplicate]
I was customizing my ubuntu 20.04 to look like mac os catalina. I have followed normal protocols for customization including gnome-tweaks, dash to dock and blyr installation. So after the full ...
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My Applications are not showing after upgrading from Ubuntu 18.04 to 20.04
I did an upgrade today to the latest version of ubuntu. Everything looked good and fine only for me to discover that I cannot find my applications after clicking the 'Show Applications' icon. The same ...
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Get the dock on the external sides of screens
I have this screen disposition. Currently the dock is on the bottom of my screens, it shows when I approach my mouse.
I'd like to get the dock on the external sides of my screens. Currently, I only ...
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What exactly do dash-to-dock intellihide and intellihide-mode dconf variables do on GNOME 3?
At least since 18.04 Bionic Beaver, maybe previously, dash-to-dock GNOME extension was defined as system default dock application and its settings are stored through dconf.
One of those got me ...
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How does gnome-shell / dash-to-dock choose an icon for running java application (Talend) [duplicate]
I have installed Talend Open Studio by simply unzipping the archive in my home folder.
The application is launched via a shell script.
Then I created a desktop file :
[Desktop Entry]
Name=Talend Open ...
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Windows in taskbar are grouped by the parent app, rather than app
In the taskbar (aka Ubuntu Dock) windows are grouped by the parent application that launched them instead of the application
In the screenshot, it looks have one Chrome instance and two PhpStorm ...
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Apps Name truncated in Ubuntu 18.04
This question has already been asked.
I am hoping for the answer that I want. In the answer to that question some extension has been suggested, I do not want any extension but to show all the apps ...
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Can I adjust the way GUI applications are grouped?
I'm using the default Ubuntu dock but I'm frustrated by one of its behaviours, the way that if you open application A via application B, the dock treats A as an instance of B. For instance, say I ...
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"quit" option for multiple window on Ubuntu Dock
My Ubuntu after gnome tweaks application theme modification does not allow quit option for individual closure in several open windows for the same program on Dock Bar. I changed Adwaita (default) by ...
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Ubuntu 19.10 Centralise icons on dash/dock
I have moved the Dash/Dock from the left of the screen to the bottom. I would now like the icons centralised on it. I have installed dconf-editor but can't see an option for it.
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Ubuntu 19.10 Dock keeps unwanted apps permanently. How can I remove them?
In Ubuntu 19.10, multiple corpses of apps remain in the dock after they are closed. These are all apps opened from the terminal (display, ncview, etc). However, not all instances of the opened ...
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I installed Unity Hub and Unity but I have to run hub using the DL file. Can I make it appear in apps or pin it to dock somehow?
Installed Unity following this guideline https://docs.unity3d.com/Manual/GettingStartedInstallingHub.html
The file type is AppImage
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How to "always-hide" dock in Ubuntu 19.10? [duplicate]
In Ubuntu 19.10 there's automatically converted GNOME's dash to dock. And, configuration:
"settings -> dock": offers only option "Auto-hide the Dock",
"GNOME Tweaks": can't configure any extension ...
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how to always show left dock in ubuntu gnome desktop on 1604
I first install ubuntu 16.04 then using the follow command install the ubuntu-gnome-desktop
sudo apt-get install ubuntu-gnome-desktop
However, after I reboot the system, I can not see the left dock.
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Icons in Ubuntu Dock are too small
After setting up my second monitor, I noticed the icons on the Ubuntu Dock where smaller than before.
Any fix?
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Why activities button and sidebar overlap?
In a fresh 19.10 install (hDPI) the activities button and the sidebar overlap as shown in this picture:
Same in 100% scale.
how can I fix it?
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Remove online account icons from Ubuntu dock [duplicate]
I have connected two Google accounts to my Ubuntu 19.10 PC to access easily to the documents stored in Google Drive. Ubuntu has added the accounts to 'Files' shortcuts, which is how I "mount" GDrive:
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Use Gnome dash-to-dock without autohide
I recently installed the 'dash-to-dock' extension for Gnome on Ubuntu 18.04 as I liked the way it looked as opposed to the default dock.
I liked the extension although I wasn't keen on the auto-hide ...
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Move dock show applications from right to left not working
I'm using ubuntu 18.04, I tried to move the 'show applications' from right to left in my dock using this command in terminal:
gsettings set org.gnome.shell.extensions.dash-to-dock show-apps-at-top ...
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Ubuntu Dock keeps Disappearing
The favorites bar (Ubuntu Dock) on the left hand side of my Ubuntu 19.10 desktop keeps disappearing. Sometimes it will be days, sometimes several times a day. I have found references here: Taskbar ...
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How can I change this animation in Ubuntu Dock?
I use "Dash to Dock" like a dock panel. I want to change animation in dock panel, when I press on dock panel item, the pressing effect (borders and shadows) appears. I want to remove this effect. How ...
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How can I make Ubuntu Dock show labels, not icons (like Windows does)?
On Ubuntu 19.04 how do I make Ubuntu Dock show the labels of running programs like Windows does in the taskbar? Also not to group them with dots but separate labels (again as Windows does).
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Multiple icons task bar git gui [duplicate]
When I use Git-gui I get multiple icons in the taskbar/favorites (Ubuntu Dock), see below:
Is there a way to fix this? I have only one window open.
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Dynamic Trash icon in Dash to Dock on Ubuntu 18.04
I want to make a trash icon for my dock. Dash to Dock does not have a trash icon that I can add, so I was going to make one. I want the Trash full icon when something gets added to the trash, and I ...
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Hiding taskbar and topbar in Ubuntu 19.04
I'd like to have both the taskbar (Ubuntu Dock) and the topbar auto-hidden in Ubuntu 19.04. I've tried a number of extensions but they're not doing exactly that - mostly they hide then when a window ...
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Running a custom command from the Terminal icon in the dock on Ubuntu 18.04
I'd like to execute the command:
gnome-terminal --geometry=80x50+0+0
when I left-click on the Terminal icon in the Ubuntu dock (on Ubuntu 18.04).
Is there a way to do it?
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Ubuntu 18.04 Side Bar Icons Multiple App Instances Display On Click
In Ubuntu 18.04, when I click on a side bar (Ubuntu Dock) app icon representing multiple instances (for instance two terminals running) nothing happens. In 16.04 I get separate windows displaying all ...
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Ubuntu Dock doesn't work
After upgrading Ubuntu 19.04, Ubuntu Dock extension shows an error message as follows.
Before the upgrade, Ubuntu Dock worked well and showed no error.
When I click 'Error loading extension', I get ...
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Disable hot edge to fire Auto-hide Ubuntu Dock
In Ubuntu 18.04 in Settings application I selected Dock from left panel and turned Auto-hide the Dock to On. Dock (the Launcher at the left site of monitor) is now hidden as expected.
There are two ...
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Pinning LightBurn icon in Ubuntu Dock
I have installed LightBurn on Ubuntu. They do not have a full installer for Linux. I run the application by clicking on the .AppImage file on my desktop.
While the application is running, the icon ...
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Moving bin to the end of the dock in 19.10
I'm trying to make my desktop look just a bit more like Unity and I'm wondering in 19.10 if there is a way to move the bin right down to the bottom.
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Ubuntu dock changes version/style intermittently
I have Ubuntu 18.04.3. I am used to the dock in the left hand picture. However, sometimes I get the right hand picture instead. The right hand one automatically hides. I'd like to only see the left.
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18.04 Change Workspace Keyboard shortcut, conflicting with that for switching apps on the dash [duplicate]
I followed the steps mentioned in: 18.04 Change shortcut for switching workspace - Ask Ubuntu, to change Keyboard shortcuts to switch to another workspace, as can be seen in the following picture:
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Dash to Dock doesn't disable even uninstalled
I'm using Ubuntu 18.04, and I installed the "Dash to Dock" extension. It worked, but I didn't like it, so I removed it.
But the dock is same as before, and I checked if the "Ubuntu Dock" is on, but ...
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Firefox Beta instances are shown under Firefox Stable in the dock. How do we associate the Beta instance with the Beta launcher?
The directory ~/.local/share/applications/ includes three files associating with different versions of Firefox, namely
Firefox - firefox.desktop
[Desktop Entry]
Encoding=UTF-8
Version=1.0
Type=...
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Hacking the Ubuntu 18 Dock to not group windows of the same application
I'm trying to hack my way into not having multiple windows of the same application grouped in the Dock in Ubuntu 18 since it seems this is not an available feature natively or with dash-to-dock. I've ...
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Problems after upgrading to Ubuntu 19.10 from 18.04
I just upgraded to Ubuntu 19.10 from 18.04 (after going through 19.04) and I have a few problems.
1) The dock with icons is not showing up. I tried the solution here, but it didn't work for me.
2) ...