hi all. i'm new to Zorin as of a week or two ago. i purchased Zorin OS 17 Pro. first thing I did was change the appearance layout to the 5th option because i'm used to working on a Mac.
it worked fine right from the start. the dash (or dock in Mac parlance) was visible at all times, and there was a settings panel somewhere for it (maybe in Zorin Appearance?) where I could tweak things like the size, auto hide, etc.
i have three different logins set up on my machine - an admin for admin/sudo related tasks (and nothing else), another for work, and another for personal. the only things i installed on the admin login (aside from things I need on my other logins that require sudo access) are: my password manager and Kinto (to make my keyboard work like it would on a Mac). these are the only items I use on the admin account that didn't come pre-installed on Zorin 17 Pro.
just last night, 8-12 hours ago, i logged out of one of my accounts and into the admin account to install some stuff that required sudo. all was normal. logged out of admin and back into my user and did some more work...
this morning i went back into the admin login and my layout was changed. now it suddenly looked like this, which is option 4, except the dash is gone - now the dash only appears when i click the button in the top left
i found 2 other similar forum posts:
someone in post 2 says: "The Dock only appears when You are in the Overview and App Grid; it doesn't appear on the normal Desktop. Push the Super Key (Windows Key) to come to this. If You want a Dock on the Desktop You could use the Gnome Extension called [Dash To Dock.]" - but like I said, this was not true for me when I initially set up my machine. I didn't install any extensions in order to get the dash to appear at all times, I simply chose layout option 5 in Zorin Apperance.
in post 1, the same person says that the above is only true in the "Core" version of Zorin. In Pro, they suggested re-installation and provided the following:
"But if You want to try a Reinstallation, I could give You the Command:
sudo apt reinstall zorin-appearance zorin-appearance-layouts-shell-core zorin-appearance-layouts-shell-premium zorin-apprearance-layouts-support"
I tried this, and it hasn't brought back my dash.
I would rather not install a random extension if i can avoid it. I try to keep this machine as barebones as possible, especially the admin login. I just want the original functionality that came with my Zorin 17 Pro back.
any idea what might have caused this thing that was working perfectly fine to break in the first place, and how I can correct it?
tyia!
