cosmic dock does not show when using pop os 22.04 in a VM

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I'm running pop os 22.04 on a virtual machine, and is setting the dock to always hide, showing at bottom of the screen.

It seems that the dock will only show up if mouse 'y' position matches the display screen resolution height and above.

for e.g. my display resolution is 1920 x 1080, and the dock will appear if i use xdotool to move the mouse to y position 1080 with xdotool mousemove 500 1080

the docker doesn't show up if the y position is slightly lesser like 1078. Using xdotool, I realize my maximum y position is 1078 when my cursor moves to the bottom of the screen. So is it possible to decrease the offset of the y position to say -5 so that the dock can be triggered?