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I've just upgraded to 22.04.1 (from 20.04) and the Plank dock is no longer autostarting when I log in.

If I run a ps -f then I can see the process running, but there is no dock displayed.

If I kill -15 the running process and start it again from the terminal (no arguments, just plank) the dock appears and it is as it was before the upgrade.

I've checked dmesg for errors and can't see any mention of Plank in there.

I've also removed it from Startup Applications and re-added it.. still not auto starting, though.

(I've also checked under the settings menu on the login screen to see if I can reselect XOrg rather than the new Waylandengine but the only options I have are Budgie Desktop and Ubuntu.)

Using loginctl show-session $(awk '/tty/ {print $1}' <(loginctl)) -p Type | awk -F= '{print $2}' returns X11showing that I am already running XOrg anyway...

(As a side note, I also tried forcing XOrg via /etc/gdm3/custom.conf and uncommenting the WaylandEnabled=falseline.. but as I say, I was already running under XOrg.)

Fat Monk
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  • Deleted my answer because you showed you are already using Xorg. Add that information to your question. One thing to try is to delay the autostartup a few seconds. – vanadium Aug 22 '22 at 18:39

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As per vanadium's suggestion, I resolved this by delaying the start of Plank.

I achieved this by creating a little bash script that takes a single argument for the delay in seconds, then starts plank in the background. I then changed my Startup Applications to call this instead of running Plank directly.

I called the script startPlank and saved it in the same directory as Plank itself (so that it is found in the path as the original plank is) and added execute permissions to the file.

My script is as follows:

#! /bin/bash

if [[ ! -z "$1" ]]
then
    sleep $1
fi


plank &

And in Startup Applications I now simply call startPlank 2 instead of just plank.

Fat Monk
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  • This worked for me also. But Startup Applications already had an optional delay feature, so I didn't need the script – flymike Sep 19 '23 at 13:51