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Plank Dock Lightweight Launcher | Tips | Installation

| December 8, 2011 | Applications, Download, How TOs, Tips And Tricks | 9 Comments
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Plank dock is a lightweight applications launcher, Plank dock is developed by Docky Core team. It could be a great alternative to many dock applications if you are looking for simple dock application do the basic function of launching applications and arranging applications on the dock. Also, it’s a lightweight dock does not require big a mount of memory at all.

If you want to keep a running application on Plank dock simply right click on it and select keep in Dock.

Plank Dock Configurations

Plank Dock does not include a graphical user interface to customize the Plank Dock launcher. However you still can change Plank Dock Themes. Change the hiding mode “Auto hide, intelligently hide, Always on top”. Also, you can adjust Plank Dock icon size through the setting configuration file.

/home/"username"/.config/plank/dock1/settings

[How To]: Install Plank Dock On Ubuntu 17.04 (Zesty Zapus) Using PPA

You can install the Plank dock on earlier long term support releases [Ubuntu 16.04.2 LTS (Xenial Xerus) and Ubuntu 14.04.5 LTS (Trusty Tahr)] and the development release Ubuntu 17.10 (Artful Aardvark).

sudo apt-add-repository ppa:ricotz/docky
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install plank

Repository used for the installation is Docky Core “unstable”.


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  1. bigbrovar Reply

    Any idea what langauge it is written in. Is it a c# app like docky?

  2. Salts Reply

    Hi,

    I like this little launcher, just one little issue and I wonder if anyone has a cure.

    When an app is launched a number is displayed under the apps dock icon, but it is cut off so difficult to read. It’s not a big issue but is a little annoying.

    In the settings file I have adjusted the value of The alignment for the dock on the monitor’s edge, but this value does not make any difference at all, I have tried 5, 50, 500 & 50% but nothing happens, all the other settings work. It is not the monitor.

    All the best

    Salts

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