{"id":34930,"date":"2021-10-12T13:46:05","date_gmt":"2021-10-12T13:46:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/?p=34930"},"modified":"2024-05-05T13:19:13","modified_gmt":"2024-05-05T13:19:13","slug":"shorten-dock-show-applications-top-ubuntu-21-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/2021\/10\/shorten-dock-show-applications-top-ubuntu-21-10\/","title":{"rendered":"Shorten Dock Panel & Move ‘Show Applications’ to Top in Ubuntu 24.04 | 22.04"},"content":{"rendered":"

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After installed the new Ubuntu 22.04 and Ubuntu 24.04, one of the top things to do is tweaking the left dock panel.<\/p>\n

Via “System Settings -> Appearance”, you may change the panel position to bottom, adjust icon size, and enable auto-hide. However, the 9 dots ‘Show Applications’ (or ‘Show Apps’) icon sticks to the bottom which is not movable.<\/p>\n

Move ‘Show Applications’ button to the Top:<\/h3>\n

Though you can not drag moving the icon, Ubuntu has hidden option to change the position. And you may run single command in terminal to do the trick.<\/p>\n

Press Ctrl+Alt+T<\/b> on keyboard to open terminal. When it opens, paste the command below and hit Enter:<\/p>\n

gsettings set org.gnome.shell.extensions.dash-to-dock show-apps-at-top true<\/pre>\n
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The icon goes to top (or left if you moved dock to bottom) immediately after running the command. So it will look like:<\/p>\n
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Shorten the Dock Panel:<\/h3>\n
The dock launcher is easy to move to the bottom, but Appearance setting does not has option to make it compact, so to have Mac OS style short bottom panel.<\/p>\n
To shorten Ubuntu Dock, press Ctrl+Alt+T to open terminal and run command:<\/p>\n
gsettings set org.gnome.shell.extensions.dash-to-dock extend-height false<\/pre>\n
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After that, it will look like:<\/p>\n
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Configure Ubuntu Dock via Dconf Editor:<\/h3>\n
For those hate Linux commands, there’s an advanced configuration tool ‘Dconf Editor’ available to do the trick.<\/p>\n
Search for and install the tool from Ubuntu Software if you don’t have it.<\/p>\n
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Next, open Dconf Editor by searching from activities overview screen. Then navigate to “org\/gnome\/shell\/extensions\/dash-to-dock<\/b>“. There you’ll see a list of options to configure the dock panel, including moving ‘Show Applications’, ‘extend-height’, ‘click to minimize’, and more.<\/p>\n
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That’s all. Enjoy!<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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