WetGeek If I were setting up another laptop for Solus Xfce, I'd probably get rid of the dock.
Heh! As reported later, I not only didn't get rid of the dock in Xfce, I added the Latte dock to my Solus Plasma laptops and desktops. The more I used it in Xfce, the more I grew to like it.
The Latte dock, of course (coming from KDE), is even easier to use, and flawless in operation. It hides automatically when an app window intrudes on its space, and appears automatically when needed. It's easy to configure, and adding launcher icons to it is less complicated than with the Xfce dock. Once the desired launchers are in place, they're easily pinned to the dock (via the context menu), so they remain where you put 'em.
It's not a requirement that you move the bottom panel to the top of the screen, but I did that on all these installations, and quickly grew accustomed to it. The solution -- for me -- was to set up all my Plasma machines the same way. Now my first thought, when I want the menu, or the workspace switcher, or the system tray, is not to look DOWN, but to look UP.
By the way, having moved the bottom panel to the top of the screen, I also adjusted its size to make it thinner, and removed the icon-only task list, as with the Latte dock installed, it's now redundant. Having stated earlier that I'd probably remove the Xfce dock if I were ever to install Xfce on hardware, I thought I'd better provide a correction. As it happens, I went the other way instead. 🙂
