caior-dock 3.4.1 position limited to top of screen

[bonizak]

With either only one dock or more, and the Bottom Dock set to 'Bottom' the dock remains just a bit below the top of the screen as you can see here:
Default theme

Humanity Theme

I'm running Ubuntu 24.04
I used CD several years ago and don't recall ever having this issue. Did I miss something in the setup ?

[dkondor]

Hi,

it seems you're using the default Ubuntu desktop session. Unfortunately, it does not support running Cairo-Dock anymore (due to the move to the Wayland backend of GNOME Shell by default).

What could work as an alternative is to stick with a desktop session that uses X11:

• try selecting the "Ubuntu on Xorg" session at login -- this should be able to run CD as normal, but might have other issues with desktop components
• use the desktop session provided by CD -- this should show up in the login menu as "GNOME/Cairo-Dock (Compiz)", however, I'm unsure if it is included in the official packages in Ubuntu, if not then you could try using the updated packages from the Dev PPA here: https://launchpad.net/~cairo-dock-team/+archive/ubuntu/weekly (let us know if you have issues installing / setting up)

Or, use the dev version of Cairo-Dock (version 3.5.99 from the PPA) that works under some Wayland sessions, but unfortunately not ones that are GNOME-based:

• use the KDE Plasma desktop environment (kde-plasma-desktop) package (you can add CD to autostart in some of the settings, and also remove the default panels)
• I can also recommend Wayfire: https://github.com/WayfireWM/wayfire/ although you likely need to compile it from source for the best experience on Ubuntu (the official packages are outdated)

[dkondor]

BTW, I've been meaning to add this info to the project Wiki, but haven't got the time for it recently