Unwanted gap / border / margin around dock

[adatum]

On Fedora 34 (Gnome Shell 40) with dash-to-dock version 69 (thanks, at least it's working now!) there is a gap / border / margin around the dock so that it is not flush with the side edge of the screen. A similar margin exists for window distances to cause the auto-hide feature to activate.

Can this margin be reduced to zero? I did not find a setting which achieves this.

I find it much easier to move the cursor to the very edge of the screen to click on launcher icons instead of having to center more careful on the icon.

[cjkr]

I have a similar problem. In my case, the margin is much more pronounced. Where in the code is this value set? I can manually change it while awaiting a possible permanent fix.

[macgeneral]

As a workaround you can edit the following file (the location is valid for a global install in Manjaro):

user@pc:~$ sudo vim /usr/share/gnome-shell/extensions/[email protected]/stylesheet.css

(Only showing the relevant lines)

line 4:
#dashtodockContainer.bottom #dash {
    padding-bottom: 0px;  /* 10px */
}

and to get rid of the gap completely:

line 19:
#dashtodockContainer.bottom.shrink #dash .dash-background {
    margin-bottom: 0px;  /* 1px */
}

Then simply open the Gnome Shell Extensions app and disable and enable Dash to Dock again.

[memegauste]

The issue is still relevant on gnome, though...

[ryzendew]

Just add a settings to change the floating margin in dock settings someone already did it maybe if you ask them to separate that work it gets merged

[ces42]

After upgrading to v72 (19cc612 to be precise) I'm having this problem again... and @macgeneral's fix doesn not seem to work anymore (stylesheet.css has changed). Did anyone manage to adapt the fix?

[globdug]

If can be still useful to someone, in Zorin OS 16.3, the stylesheet sit in ~/.local/share/gnome-shell/extensions/[email protected]

With this option active:

I edited the element #dashtodockContainer.dashtodock.bottom #dash at line 41, just play with css properties.

I think I cannot help more of this because I'm really a newnewnewnewnewnewbie with linux, I have just installed Zorin and, instead of trying to understand how linux works, I'm trying to customize the dock... 😆