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The Plank is the default dock used by elementary OS. It is Docky's successor.

The Plank is the default dock used by the unofficial Ubuntu derivative elementary OS. It is Docky's successor, having been rewritten in Vala instead of Mono. It is one of the five main components of elementary OS's Pantheon shell.

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Disable Plank Mouse Hover Tooltips

Is there any way to disable launcher mouse hover tooltips in Plank ? I would really like to achieve this. Adding the line gtk-enable-tooltips = 0 to my .gtkrc-2.0 file in my home folder doesn't disable hover tips in Plank. I'm on Xubuntu 14.04.
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Plank dock undesirable effect when using "Pressure Reveal"

I am using Plank as my dock for sometime now and it works magnificently. However, I'm experiencing problems when I enable "Pressure Reveal" in the settings. I'm using the "Autohide" settings so Plank hides automatically whenever I point my mouse…
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Is it possible to make the maximum icon zoom in plank more than 200%?

I would like to make the icon zoom in plank more than 200% so that I can have many small icons but then have them greatly enlarged when I scroll over them, to emulate the behaviour of the OSX dock. I have tried modifying the settings using the dconf…
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How creation of folders inside of plank be done in Ubuntu 20.04 LTS while retaining in them all the features of plank?

I am very happy with what plank has to offer but I am also looking for ways on how can we create folders inside plank. If I want to group application together based on type, this could be very helpful feature. Like if I want to make launcher…
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I cant add Slingscold to plank1

i add Slingscold but i cant see add it. Slingscold.dockitem delete always automatically. how fix it?
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Add "Show Desktop" shortcut to plank

I am using Plank on Ubuntu 14.04, I want to add "show desktop" shortcut to plank so that whenever I click it I get to see the desktop directly instead of minimizing all the windows. How can I do it?
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Plank dock doesn't want to start

I was trying to install the dock plank but when I finished installing it and tried to start it from the app menu it did not open it, so I tried to start it from the terminal but it reported the following error[CRITICAL 18:56:34.209013]…
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I am getting some error when I try to open plank by terminal of Ubuntu 20.04 LTS. What can i do to get rid of this error message?

I am customising my desktop, plank is very beautiful tool and when I am trying to open plank settings by terminal, I get following error message: root@chess-HP-Laptop-15-bs0xx:~# plank [WARN 15:37:15.984933] [Environment:165] XDG_SESSION_CLASS not…
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How do i get the app launcher icon in plank?

Im using plank and i was wondering how to get the app launcher icon from ubuntu in plank?
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Plank icon zoom not available in Ubuntu 19.04?

After installing plank on Ubuntu 19.04 and the plank settings app, there is no setting to allow icon zoom. Is there a fix for this? or am I missing something?
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