brent I could not stand the dots like that went in and edited the plank theme
and moved them der dots up.
And few other things.

      Axios they are too small, not always obvious, and too far away from the icons. congrats on that! I'm glad it was possible to do. did you have to hack about in .conf file?

      p.s.--the budgie dock actually gets this right. dot is big, bright, and right on the app.

      anyhow thanks had no idea plank could be customized like that, that makes me happy.

          brent Yup ./local/share/plank/themes
          Just edit the theme file copy a backup just in case.

              Axios ./local/share/plank/themes

              my folder is empty. so you wrote your own .conf file and saved it in /themes? ( I thought you modified an existing one. but I did a search and couldn't find a plank .conf file...just the desktop entry file.)

                  brent Sorry that directory was for themes you added going be empty unless you added some
                  The default themes are in root forget where guess you could copy the root ones over there and rename
                  them to not get confused or download a theme and try messing with it.

                  whatever way you want to go.
                  Note just copy the one your using from root plank and rename it custom or something.

                  Sorry about that slip of the ole mind.

                  The files are dock.theme

                      brent No thats the root (Defaults) if you copy that Directory to the other Location and rename the directory to like Custom it shows up in plank auto.
                      Then edit there without messing root all the time
                      But the dock.theme are the ones you edit

                      ./local/share/plank/themes are where you put the ones you download from net to.

                        SethStorm666 that's a start, thank you (for illuminating possibilities)

                        what code would you use for making the dots brighter (looks like you did)?
                        what line would you write for moving the dots closer to the app itself (it doesn't appear you did that).

                        graci-

                            brent When you edit and change something just hit save and watch plank and it will change
                            no need reload or do anything else.

                                Axios Linewidth raises it up but you have a line around plank but it does not
                                take much to raise it up. You dont see line to much at least on mine you didnt
                                Indicatorsize adjust the dot doesnt take much there either

                                Linewidth=3 and indicator=8 is what i got

                                If issue with line prob can change color of it to blend in.

                                    20 days later

                                    Harvey

                                    "we are rebasing on Serpent OS"

                                    Wooooah this is news to me. Awesome!!!!