[SOLVED] Plank will only unhide when at the Top or Left position

[rodia77]

Hi all, first time playing with Mint XFCE (Cinnamon on other machines).

Pretty much what the title says -- Plank will only appear on mouse pointer hover when it's positioned at the top or left, it doesn't get triggered when it's at the bottom or right, which is a problem for me because I want it at the bottom. Same behaviour for each hide mode, Pressure Reveal disabled.

Inxi:

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System:
  Kernel: 5.15.0-53-generic x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 11.2.0
    Desktop: Xfce 4.16.0 tk: Gtk 3.24.23 info: xfce4-panel, plank
    wm: xfwm 4.16.1 vt: 7 dm: LightDM 1.30.0 Distro: Linux Mint 21 Vanessa
    base: Ubuntu 22.04 jammy
Machine:
  Type: Laptop System: LENOVO product: 80S6 v: Lenovo N22
    serial: <superuser required> Chassis: type: 10 v: Lenovo N22
    serial: <superuser required>
  Mobo: LENOVO model: N22 v: SDK0K13476 WIN serial: <superuser required>
    UEFI: Lenovo v: 0YCN26WW date: 11/29/2018
Battery:
  ID-1: BAT1 charge: 39.3 Wh (100.0%) condition: 39.3/45.0 Wh (87.4%)
    volts: 12.6 min: 11.2 model: Intel SR 1 Harris Beach type: Li-ion
    serial: <filter> status: Full cycles: 83
CPU:
  Info: dual core model: Intel Celeron N3060 bits: 64 type: MCP
    smt: <unsupported> arch: Airmont rev: 4 cache: L1: 112 KiB L2: 2 MiB
  Speed (MHz): avg: 480 min/max: 480/2480 cores: 1: 480 2: 480
    bogomips: 6400
  Flags: ht lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3
Graphics:
  Device-1: Intel Atom/Celeron/Pentium Processor x5-E8000/J3xxx/N3xxx
    Integrated Graphics
    vendor: Lenovo driver: i915 v: kernel ports: active: eDP-1
    empty: DP-1, DP-2, HDMI-A-1, HDMI-A-2 bus-ID: 00:02.0 chip-ID: 8086:22b1
    class-ID: 0300
  Device-2: Chicony Lenovo EasyCamera type: USB driver: uvcvideo
    bus-ID: 1-5:3 chip-ID: 04f2:b582 class-ID: 0e02 serial: <filter>
  Display: x11 server: X.Org v: 1.21.1.3 compositor: xfwm v: 4.16.1 driver:
    X: loaded: modesetting unloaded: fbdev,vesa gpu: i915 display-ID: :0.0
    screens: 1
  Screen-1: 0 s-res: 1229x691 s-dpi: 96 s-size: 325x183mm (12.8x7.2")
    s-diag: 373mm (14.7")
  Monitor-1: eDP-1 res: 1230x692 hz: 60 dpi: 91 size: 344x193mm (13.5x7.6")
    diag: 328mm (12.9") modes: 1366x768
  OpenGL: renderer: Mesa Intel HD Graphics 400 (BSW) v: 4.6 Mesa 22.0.5
    compat-v: 3.1 direct render: Yes
Audio:
  Device-1: Intel Atom/Celeron/Pentium Processor x5-E8000/J3xxx/N3xxx Series
    High Definition Audio
    vendor: Lenovo driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus-ID: 00:1b.0
    chip-ID: 8086:2284 class-ID: 0403
  Sound Server-1: ALSA v: k5.15.0-53-generic running: yes
  Sound Server-2: PulseAudio v: 15.99.1 running: yes
  Sound Server-3: PipeWire v: 0.3.48 running: yes
Network:
  Device-1: Intel Wireless 7260 driver: iwlwifi v: kernel pcie:
    speed: 2.5 GT/s lanes: 1 bus-ID: 03:00.0 chip-ID: 8086:08b2 class-ID: 0280
  IF: wlp3s0 state: up mac: <filter>
  IF-ID-1: wg-mullvad state: unknown speed: N/A duplex: N/A mac: N/A
Bluetooth:
  Device-1: Intel Bluetooth wireless interface type: USB driver: btusb v: 0.8
    bus-ID: 1-3:2 chip-ID: 8087:07dc class-ID: e001
  Report: hciconfig ID: hci0 rfk-id: 2 state: up address: <filter>
    bt-v: 2.1 lmp-v: 4.0 sub-v: 500 hci-v: 4.0 rev: 500
Drives:
  Local Storage: total: 58.25 GiB used: 19.3 GiB (33.1%)
  ID-1: /dev/mmcblk1 vendor: SK Hynix model: HCG8e size: 58.25 GiB
    type: SSD serial: <filter> rev: 0x7 scheme: GPT
Partition:
  ID-1: / size: 56.54 GiB used: 19.29 GiB (34.1%) fs: ext4
    dev: /dev/mmcblk1p2
  ID-2: /boot/efi size: 511 MiB used: 5.2 MiB (1.0%) fs: vfat
    dev: /dev/mmcblk1p1
Swap:
  ID-1: swap-1 type: file size: 2 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) priority: -2
    file: /swapfile
Sensors:
  System Temperatures: cpu: 43.0 C mobo: N/A
  Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A
Repos:
  Packages: apt: 2130
  No active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list
  Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/brave-browser-release.list
    1: deb [signed-by=/usr/share/keyrings/brave-browser-archive-keyring.gpg arch=amd64] https://brave-browser-apt-release.s3.brave.com/ stable main
  Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/official-package-repositories.list
    1: deb http://packages.linuxmint.com vanessa main upstream import backport
    2: deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy main restricted universe multiverse
    3: deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy-updates main restricted universe multiverse
    4: deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy-backports main restricted universe multiverse
    5: deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ jammy-security main restricted universe multiverse
Info:
  Processes: 248 Uptime: 33m wakeups: 1 Memory: 3.68 GiB
  used: 1.71 GiB (46.3%) Init: systemd v: 249 runlevel: 5 Compilers:
  gcc: 11.3.0 alt: 11 Shell: Bash v: 5.1.16 running-in: xfce4-terminal
  inxi: 3.3.13

I had MX Linux (systemd-less) on this machine before and Plank was working just fine.

Ideas? TIA.

Edit: This forum must have some supernatural enlightening effects on people, because the moment I posted, I got this idea of checking one thing more. So the issue was apparently connected to the fact that Display > Scale was set to 0.9x. After changing back to 1x the relevant inxi part changes,too:

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Display: x11 server: X.Org v: 1.21.1.3 compositor: xfwm v: 4.16.1 driver:
    X: loaded: modesetting unloaded: fbdev,vesa gpu: i915 display-ID: :0.0
    screens: 1
  Screen-1: 0 s-res: 1366x768 s-dpi: 96 s-size: 361x203mm (14.2x8.0")
    s-diag: 414mm (16.3")
  Monitor-1: eDP-1 res: 1366x768 hz: 60 dpi: 101
    size: 344x193mm (13.5x7.6") diag: 328mm (12.9") modes: 1366x768
  OpenGL: renderer: Mesa Intel HD Graphics 400 (BSW) v: 4.6 Mesa 22.0.5
    compat-v: 3.1 direct render: Yes

But I had that scale set for a reason, my eyesight is bad and I need some kind of screen enlargement.

[bendipa]

Mine works perfectly fine when positioned at the bottom in Xfce. What is the first configuration you have under the Hide Dock section?

[rodia77]

Mine works perfectly fine when positioned at the bottom in Xfce. What is the first configuration you have under the Hide Dock section?

Intellihide.
But as I said in my edit to the OP (perhaps didn't make myself clear enough), switching the scale back to 1.0x fixes the issue. So now the question is, how to have both the scale I want and Plank at the bottom.

[bendipa]

If you disable intellihide, even with display scale < 1 Plank bar will remain. Intellihide doesn't work other than for desktop view >= 1. I have scale set to 1 and I find that comfortable, despite being shortsighted.

However, there are other ways to magnify the view in a window, zooming being the most obvious, eg, pressing Cntrl key and using middle mouse wheel to zoom in or out. That works in file manager or in a browser. If you want to magnify the view on the desktop, desktop-settings will incease the size of icons on the panel or on the desktop itself.

[rodia77]

Thank you, Desktop Settings + Appearance should do the trick with adjusting the display to my eyesight without having to mess with the scale, I only configured XFCE once before and forgot which settings to look at. My take on the Plank not working at 0.9x is that its bottom and right trigger points were beyond the screen edges. Marking the topic solved.