MOVING DOCK TO SECOND MONITOR INSTALL

MOVING DOCK TO SECOND MONITOR INSTALL

To get the latest Git code you'll also need git, and for detecting the monitor on which you move the mose, you'll also need to install xdotool. To build autoplank you'll need Go ( golang-go in Debian, Ubuntu, elementary OS, etc.). It's very easy to build it from source though. The developer has said on Reddit that he will provide binaries for autoplank, but they aren't available for now. On its GitHub page, it's mentioned that you need Go 1.8 or newer to build autoplank but I was able to successfully build it with Go 1.6 in Ubuntu 16.04 (elementary OS 0.4 Loki). Plank is used by default in elementary OS, but it can be used on any desktop environment or Linux distribution you wish. To access its settings, hold down the Ctrl key while right clicking anywhere on the Plank dock, and then clicking on Preferences. The application allows pinning applications to the dock, and comes with a few built-in simple 'docklets': a clipboard manager, clock, CPU monitor, show desktop and trash. Plank is a simple dock that shows icons of running applications / windows. It's also important to note that with these 2 extra pull requests, the Plank preferences window closes when moving the mouse to a different monitor.Īutoplank should work with elementary OS, as well as any desktop environment or Linux distribution you use Plank dock on. It is very noticeable though if hiding Plank is completely turned off, so I don't recommend using autoplank if you want to keep Plank always visible! With 'Autohide' this is not noticeable because the dock is only shown when moving the mouse near the bottom of the screen. This causes Plank to flicker slightly (I didn't find it too distracting, but you may have a different opinion) when it's moved between monitors, if Plank is set to hide, in all modes except 'Autohide'. With these fixes, Plank is shown on a different monitor as soon as the mouse enters that monitor, with no delay. The behavior also changes when including these pull requests. Although it works, autoplank is a bit buggy with these pull requests.

autoplank stopped working and a couple of pull requests on GitHub fix that, but the autoplank developer seems inactive and did not merge those pull requests, that's why in the commands below we'll also get those these 1 2 pull requests besides the autoplank code. The time delay before showing plank is not currently configurable, but that may change in the future. The developer says this is intentional, to make sure you actually want to access Plank on that monitor. There's a slight delay until Plank actually shows up on the monitor where the mouse is though.

This tool only works if Plank is set to run at the bottom of the screen, at least for now. When you move your mouse cursor to the bottom of a monitor, autoplank detect your mouse movement using xdotool and it automatically moves Plank to that monitor. Autoplank is a small tool written in Go which adds multi-monitor support to Plank dock without having to create multiple docks.

Moving dock to second monitor