Docky can't restart after suspend or if you plug/unplug power cable from your laptop on some Ubuntu distributions including Ubuntu 14.04 LTS.
Here is a solution for these problems:
Create /etc/pm/sleep.d/20_docky file with root access and make it executable (chmod 755) to solve problem for suspend:
Create /etc/pm/power.d/20_docky file with root access and make it executable (chmod 755) to solve problem for plug/unplug power cable:
You may remove >/dev/null part if you want to examine docky log messages inside pm log files.
Here is a solution for these problems:
Create /etc/pm/sleep.d/20_docky file with root access and make it executable (chmod 755) to solve problem for suspend:
Code:
#!/bin/sh
case $1 in
resume)
USER=`who | grep ":0" | head -1 | cut -d" " -f1`
USERHOME=/home/$USER
export XAUTHORITY="$USERHOME/.Xauthority"
export DISPLAY=":0"
su $USER - -c "dbus-launch /usr/bin/docky >/dev/null" &
exit 0;
;;
esacCreate /etc/pm/power.d/20_docky file with root access and make it executable (chmod 755) to solve problem for plug/unplug power cable:
Code:
#!/bin/sh
USER=`who | grep ":0" | head -1 | cut -d" " -f1`
USERHOME=/home/$USER
export XAUTHORITY="$USERHOME/.Xauthority"
export DISPLAY=":0"
su $USER - -c "dbus-launch /usr/bin/docky >/dev/null" &
exit 0;You may remove >/dev/null part if you want to examine docky log messages inside pm log files.