Dock is in the middle of the screen

[jonathanweires]

What Happened?

I just installed the daily build of Elementary OS 8.0 "elementaryos-8.0-daily.20240525" in VirtualBox. The Dock is appearing in the middle of the screen and not at the bottom-side. Changing the screen resolution does not fix the issue.

Steps to Reproduce

1. Installed Elementary SO 8.0 "elementaryos-8.0-daily.20240525" in Virtualbox
2. The issue appeared directly after that.

Expected Behavior

The Dock should be at the bottom-side of the screen.

OS Version

8.x (Early Access)

Software Version

Latest release (I have run all updates)

Log Output

No response

Hardware Info

Using VirtualBox 7.0.18 r162988 on Windows 11

[marqu3s]

Can confirm this also happens in VMware Workstation 17

[danirabbit]

@leolost2605 is it possible to position the dock with Gala in the X11 session as well?

[luzik]

Got it too

[luzik]

Don't know it is related, but while using chromium-browser, when clicking on right side of screen it counts as clicking wallpaper, not chromium window. Please look at context menu (right click on chromium)

[leolost2605]

@danirabbit sorry I kinda didn't get notified about this mention I think 😬

I guess it would somehow be possible although not via gala but via the dock where we would have to pull in the X library and do it with that? Also I'm not sure how to do the autohiding but I guess we could copy the plank code? I'm really not familiar with how the X windowing system works and how it does stuff. I think the easiest way might still be to keep plank around for the X session :shrug:

[danirabbit]

Closing since we merged the branch to not launch the new dock under X11