Dock disappears after a short amount of use.

[David Wales]

You can see application names when you move your mouse where you'd expect the dock to be, but you can't see the dock or any icons, and you can't open any applications with it.

(I'm running Luna in a VMWare Fusion virtual machine on a Mac, if that makes any difference.)

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: elementary OS 0.2
Package: elementary-desktop 1.284-0~355~precise1 [origin: LP-PPA-elementary-os-daily]
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-32.51-generic-pae 3.2.30
Uname: Linux 3.2.0-32-generic-pae i686
ApportVersion: 2.0.1-0ubuntu14+elementary3~precise1
Architecture: i386
CrashDB: elementary_meta
Date: Tue Oct 30 18:20:37 2012
InstallationMedia: elementary OS 0.2 "Luna" - Build i386 LIVE Binary 20121027-03:48
SourcePackage: elementary-meta
SuspiciousXErrors:

ThirdParty: True
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Sergey "Shnatsel" Davidoff (shnatsel)]

I can confirm but only on LiveCD

[Thang Nguyen (thang-nguyencao)]

Same on my laptop Dell vostro V3550. Upgraded from unstable build 01112011 to beta 1.

[Rick Kerkhof (rick-2288)]

I can also only confirm this on a liveCD. It is kind of annoying though since I use my Live USB to have my "computer" with me when at school, and I have to guess where Plank's hiding itself.

[Lilian A. Moraru (lilianmoraru)]

On live "cd" now and I confirm the bug.
Here is a screenshot.

[Lilian A. Moraru (lilianmoraru)]

Rick Kerkhof, if you maximize a window, the dock will appear back.

[Sergey "Shnatsel" Davidoff (shnatsel)]

Got this on an installed system once, here's a screencast.

[Rick Kerkhof (rick-2288)]

Lilian A. Moraru, that doesn't work on any of my computers.

[Cody Garver (codygarver)]

I can't reproduce this.

[Justin Zobel (justin-zobel)]

This actually happened in Luna final today in the live boot environment pre
installation.
On 11 Aug 2013 11:25, "Cody Garver" <email address hidden> wrote:

> ** Changed in: elementaryos
> Milestone: luna-rc1 => None
>
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> You received this bug notification because you are subscribed to a
> duplicate bug report (1185370).
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1073426
>
> Title:
> Dock disappears after a short amount of use.
>
> Status in elementary OS:
> Incomplete
> Status in Pantheon Dock:
> Incomplete
>
> Bug description:
> You can see application names when you move your mouse where you'd
> expect the dock to be, but you can't see the dock or any icons, and
> you can't open any applications with it.
>
> (I'm running Luna in a VMWare Fusion virtual machine on a Mac, if that
> makes any difference.)
>
> ProblemType: Bug
> DistroRelease: elementary OS 0.2
> Package: elementary-desktop 1.284-0~355~precise1 [origin:
> LP-PPA-elementary-os-daily]
> ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-32.51-generic-pae 3.2.30
> Uname: Linux 3.2.0-32-generic-pae i686
> ApportVersion: 2.0.1-0ubuntu14+elementary3~precise1
> Architecture: i386
> CrashDB: elementary_meta
> Date: Tue Oct 30 18:20:37 2012
> InstallationMedia: elementary OS 0.2 "Luna" - Build i386 LIVE Binary
> 20121027-03:48
> SourcePackage: elementary-meta
> SuspiciousXErrors:
>
> ThirdParty: True
> UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
>
> To manage notifications about this bug go to:
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/elementaryos/+bug/1073426/+subscriptions
>

[yEdubart (vps1992)]

This happen to me once with the OS installed.

[Peste Razor (peste-razor)]

Yes it happened to me too, when I was trying the Live CD.

[Rico Tzschichholz (ricotz)]

Please reconfirm this problem using a recent version of plank, 0.4.0+bzr922 and later.

[Ujjwal Sharma (ujjwal-sharma)]

Can confirm this on a proper install on a HP 430 Notebook PC.Plank has been updated but the problem persists with Plank disappearing however the icons can be clicked and the description text is visible.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

[Expired for Plank because there has been no activity for 60 days.]

[Robert Dyer (psybers)]

This actually happened to me the other day. For me, it was shortly after the dock started.

I believe it happened twice. And I of course always run the latest version.

[Robert Dyer (psybers)]

Just happened again. Only this time I noticed the gnome-panel is behaving similarly. I think this might be a compositing manager bug and not Plank specific. A 'metacity --replace&' fixed it right up.

[Cody Garver (codygarver)]

I am unable to reproduce this on an Isis iso so I removed it from the beta1 milestone

[nixxx (nixxx)]

I still have it in a Isis iso. If it can help sometimes I can see the dock fastly sliding up on the desktop in the direction of wingpanel before disappearing.

[Mateusz Sieprawski (crom9153)]

Same problem here. I've only installed Tweaks recently. But after installing Tweaks dock was working correctly. Now when I turn on system I see it only for 2 seconds. Then sometimes I can see the dock fastly sliding up on the desktop.

[Rico Tzschichholz (ricotz)]

Please try to reproduce with r1060. r1059 and r1060 might have an impact on this problem.

[indigocat (indigocat)]

Same thing that happened to shnatsel, happened to me in the same way in Freya (but not even icon labels were visible).

It happens every time I open Shotwell and maximize it.
Dock reappears a minute after closing Shotwell.

[vamshi krishna (vamshi9666)]

i am facing same . plank is disappearing if any window is opened in full size .if i try to click on plank .its hiding .In ubuntu 18.04

[ALinuxUser (buntulongername-new)]

This may have to do with libraries - things outside Plank. For, I had the problem on Mint 18, but on Mint 19 I no longer do.