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taskbar icons wont relocate ubuntu 20.04

Asked by Chris Malicoat

i know ubuntu 20.04 is new and isnt technically released yet, but i went ahead and started using it, and the first thing that came to my attention is that i cannot adjust the icons in my taskbar/favorites bar. In ubuntu 18.04 i could drag the icons in my taskbar to any space i wanted to adjust them, but in 20.04 it doesnt seem to be working properly. I was able to move a single icon a couple of times but the system acts like it does not want to move them. I drag the icon and it does not place where i drag it to. I have dragged many

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Chris Malicoat (rusynic) said : 		#1

icons in the past in windows and ubuntu and osx and they are not moving as they should. / not user friendly

I do not know why the website posted my comment while i was still typing it.

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Manfred Hampl (m-hampl) said : 		#2

On my test system with Ubuntu 20.04 I can reorder the task bar icons as desired.

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Chris Malicoat (rusynic) said : 		#3

Okay, you are right. If you leave the taskbar on the left side of the screen it works perfectly, however if you move it to the bottom of the screen, which i prefer, then it does not work properly.
I tested the right side of the screen also and it works from that position as well, but for me on my machine, when i place the taskbar at the bottom i cannot easily adjust the icons.

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Manfred Hampl (m-hampl) said : 		#4

I can confirm your findings.

With the taskbar located at the bottom, it is almost impossible to reorder the icons in Ubuntu 20.04. The same action worked well on Ubuntu 19.10

I suggest that you create a bug report.

My guess is that the target package is gnome-shell-extension-ubuntu-dock

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David Weikel (longrunner262) said : 		#5

At the risk of piling on, I can confirm the same bug on three different notebook computers: one HP and one Toshiba running AMD quad cores and a Dell, running an Intel quad core. I experimented with different size icons (from the min of 16 to the max of 64) and the problem behaves the same way across the size range. Like many, I strongly prefer having my tool tray at the bottom of the screen and on all monitors.

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