How to remove a dock from Plank?
Uninstall plank
To remove just plank package itself from Ubuntu 16.04 (Xenial Xerus) execute on terminal:sudo apt-get remove plank
Uninstall plank and it's dependent packages
To remove the plank package and any other dependant package which are no longer needed from Ubuntu Xenial.sudo apt-get remove --auto-remove plank
Purging plank
If you also want to delete configuration and/or data files of plank from Ubuntu Xenial then this will work:
sudo apt-get purge plank
To delete configuration and/or data files of plank and it's dependencies from Ubuntu Xenial then execute:
sudo apt-get purge --auto-remove plank
Source: Here
Try to reset its settings in dconf
(installable with sudo apt-get install dconf-cli
):
dconf reset -f /net/launchpad/plank/
Try to locate Plank in the current user XDG Autostart:
ls .config/autostart/
# then remove plank from here
rm .config/autostart/plank*.desktop