I have established a workaround which involves no session locking
from a terminal window: $ gsettings set org.gnome.shell.extensions.dash-to-dock dock-position 'LEFT'
I added an alias to my .bash_aliases to speed the process. LEFT can be substituted to where your bar is ({'TOP','RIGHT','BOTTOM','LEFT'}).
I have established a workaround which involves no session locking
from a terminal window: shell.extension s.dash- to-dock dock-position 'LEFT'
$ gsettings set org.gnome.
I added an alias to my .bash_aliases to speed the process. ,'RIGHT' ,'BOTTOM' ,'LEFT' }).
LEFT can be substituted to where your bar is ({'TOP'