Dash-to-dock: Ubuntu dock still showing in activities overview

[rayfun]

Hi,
I'm on a Ubuntu 18.04 release with the default Ubuntu Gnome.
I've installed Dash-to-Dock from git source.
It works great but the default Ubuntu dock is still showing in the activities overview.
Are there any other extensions, tricks, tweaks that can fix this?
Please see attached screenshot.

Best regards,
Ray

[fcastilloec]

I had the same issue, I fixed it by uninstalling Ubuntu Dock.
Just run sudo apt purge gnome-shell-extension-ubuntu-dock and after restarting gnome-shell you're good to go. Since there's no point in having both installed/enabled, this is a safe approach.

[rayfun]

This would also uninstall the Ubuntu desktop meta package.
Not sure if this is a good thing to do :-/

~$ sudo apt purge gnome-shell-extension-ubuntu-dock
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
The following packages will be REMOVED:
  gnome-shell-extension-ubuntu-dock* ubuntu-desktop*

[fcastilloec]

It's safe to remove the ubuntu-desktop package. Like you mentioned, it's just a meta package that holds a lot of dependencies when installing Ubuntu. It's only useful if you're planning on upgrading from 18.04 to 18.10 or any future version when they are released. I never update Ubuntu this way, always a fresh install, so the package is irrelevant.

EDIT: You can also read about it being safe to uninstall here: AskUbuntu: Is it safe to remove ubuntu-desktop package?

[sebanderson]

I took @fcastilloec's advice; it required a restart but I think the dock is finally gone in Activities Overview. :D

[ghost]

@fcastilloec thx! It's work for me.

[vsimitsis]

@fcastilloec Thanks! It works for me too

[micheleg]

Closing this then.

[na21]

@fcastilloec Is there a way to reinstall the ubuntu-desktop meta package if you would want to?

[fcastilloec]

@na21 yes, just type sudo apt install ubuntu-desktop on a command line and you're good to go. But this will install all of its dependencies, including gnome-shell-extension-ubuntu-dock which is what was causing this bug.