I am having a bit of a problem getting the dock configured the way I want it;
From this image you can see the dock is where I like it, on-top of the open app. But this only works if the dock is in auto-hide mode.
If the 'Hide-Dock' is off, the dock 'reserves' part of the screen, like this;
[Okay now I see that new users can only post a single image, but I think you get the idea of what i'm looking at]
I want the dock to stay on-top of other windows, but I want it to be open all the time (no hiding).
How can I configure it this way?
Here's the second image....
Hi @Michael_Cole - the short answer: you can’t.
The longer answer is that the dock, as far as I know, behaves like a panel. A panel has something called “struts”, that pushes the window away from it, thus preventing it from occupying the same place on the screen.
The reason for this behavior is that otherwise you wouldn’t be able to maximize a window without it being partially covered by the dock/panel. This is actually part of the freedesktop.org specification, which MATE adheres to (or tries to, at least).
Now, I don’t know much about Plank to know for sure, but I’m assuming it follows the same spec as the panels. Short of changing Plank’s code to behave this way, I wonder if there’s a hack of some sort that could be used to emulate this behavior, like making the dock as small as possible, but changing the icons to be huge in comparison, so that the icons bleed out into the workspace? Not sure if any of this is possible - I don’t really use the dock, so I haven’t played with it that much…
