Dock auto-hide off but hidden on screen unlock

[netpage]

When the dock is set to "Auto-hide the Dock" = Off, the dock will un-hide when logging on. Both on boot and after locking the user. This causes any open full-screen windows to move and resize as needed.

1) The release of Ubuntu you are using, via 'lsb_release -rd' or System -> About Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu 21.10
Release: 21.10
2) The version of the package you are using, via 'apt-cache policy pkgname' or by checking in Software Center
gnome-shell-extension-ubuntu-dock:
  Installed: 70~ubuntu3
  Candidate: 70~ubuntu3
  Version table:
 *** 70~ubuntu3 500
        500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu impish/main amd64 Packages
        500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu impish/main i386 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
3) What you expected to happen
The dock to start displayed (un-hidden) as per the settings. And not move.
4) What happened instead
The dock appears from the left, as if hidden.

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[Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt)]

That's the login animation, not related to the auto-hide setting. It's there by design to avoid at least two bugs:

  * Dock overlaps top bar during login;
  * Dock makes the login animation stutter heavily.

So on login, this isn't a bug. For unlocking the screen, this is a bug. And actually a recent fix to the desktop-icons-ng extension has given me some inspiration for how to fix the unlock problem.

[Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt)]

It appears the problem is not what I thought. The same unlock bug exists upstream too in https://github.com/micheleg/dash-to-dock

What's happening with Dash-to-dock at least is that gnome-shell is completely disabling (destroying) extensions when it locks the screen, and then reloading them when it unlocks the screen. So sliding in with the startup animation is actually correct behaviour, even if annoying :(

[Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt)]

Yes, confirmed the root cause is the same for Ubuntu Dock. gnome-shell restarts the whole extension which is why it is animated.

[netpage (james-lonchat)]

Hi Daniel,

Thanks for the update. Let me know if there is anything i can do to help or test.

[Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt)]

Fix proposed for Ubuntu Dock: https://github.com/micheleg/dash-to-dock/pull/1539

[Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt)]

Fix proposed for vanilla Dash to Dock: https://github.com/micheleg/dash-to-dock/pull/1540

[Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt)]

Looks like the fix has been uploaded as part of:

gnome-shell-extension-ubuntu-dock (72~ubuntu1) jammy; urgency=medium