Comments on: cairo-dock, quick update

By: MacSlow

MacSlow — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 20:33:54 +0000

@ nathan: First you should consider updating to Ubuntu 8.10 via "sudo update-manager" (or via http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu/download or http://shipit.ubuntu.com). Secondly, run a compositing window-manager like compiz or metacity (to enable metacity’s compositor enter "gconftool-2 /apps/metacity/general/compositing_manager –type bool -s true" in a gnome-terminal, disable it passing "false" instead of "true"). Doing that will make the black rectangle become transparent. Third thing to note is, that my cairo-dock was never meant to be a real application for end-users. It was just a test-bed for investigating SVG-rendering performance with cairo using different backends. My efforts sort of kicked off a bunch of new dock-like programs like gnome-dock, kiba-dock, awn and "reborn" cairo-dock in the course of time. Of those efforts the only projects to be taken seriously are awn (avant-window-navigator) and perhaps the reborn cairo-dock… with awn being my personal favourite.

By: nathan

nathan — Sat, 08 Nov 2008 08:45:24 +0000

i am fascinated by the cairo-dock that i have . . . my only problem is that i cannot make the black rectangle transparent . . . is there anything i can do . . . please make your explanation as easy as possible . . . i am newbie to ubuntu 7.10 . . .

By: MacSlow

MacSlow — Wed, 09 May 2007 09:21:05 +0000

@ rey: As there are no pre-packaged versions of cairo-clock available for YDL (as far as I know) you will have to compile it yourself I’m afraid. Since I don’t have any experience on nor access to a YDL system (or a PS3 for that matter) I’m unable to help you here. In addition to that you will need to be running a compositing-manager on your system (e.g. xcompmgr or compiz… the latter is unlikely to work as it needs proper OpenGL-acceleration via the GPU/3D-chip, which is impossible on the PS3 due to Sony’s stance regarding direct hardware-access to the RSX for Linux… they just don’t allow it and shield it behind this HyperVisor-thing, which abstracts all direct-hardware access except for the cell-CPU). cairo-clock will still work without a compositing-manager running, but it just will not look as nice. You’ll see a black rectangle behind the clock itself. You will have to search yourself for help from others (preferably from some YDL-specific forums or mailing-lists) in order to get cairo-clock running on your PS3.

By: rey

rey — Tue, 08 May 2007 05:54:30 +0000

I have YDL 5.0 installed in PS3…i use gnome…..I really want to install your Cairo clock….I downloaded the file….Could you help me install it?…im really new to linux…..Thank you in advance

By: Harry

Harry — Wed, 04 Apr 2007 15:13:56 +0000

Does anyone knows how cairo-dock can be installed in a openSuSE 10.2 (prequisites, already installed packages?) I would be grateful for a howto

By: Naty

Naty — Tue, 03 Oct 2006 16:06:35 +0000

nice.but change a settings not realy comfortable/

By: spougne

spougne — Tue, 26 Sep 2006 21:03:21 +0000

I have an error when I make the cairo source

make
cc `pkg-config –cflags cairo gtk+-2.0 librsvg-2.0 glitz-glx` -DHAVE_GLITZ `pkg-config –libs cairo gtk+-2.0 librsvg-2.0 glitz-glx` -lm cairo-dock.c -o cairo-dock
cairo-dock.c: In function ‘dock_cairo_create’:
cairo-dock.c:184: attention : assignment makes pointer from integer without a cast
/tmp/ccRRhIzd.o: dans la fonction « dock_cairo_create »:
cairo-dock.c:(.text+0xa0): référence indéfinie vers « cairo_glitz_surface_create »
/tmp/ccRRhIzd.o: dans la fonction « fill_text_buffer »:
cairo-dock.c:(.text+0×23e9): référence indéfinie vers « cairo_push_group »
cairo-dock.c:(.text+0×2475): référence indéfinie vers « cairo_pop_group_to_source »
collect2: ld a retourné 1 code d’état d’exécution
make: *** [cairo-dock] Erreur 1

By: rodgersan

rodgersan — Thu, 14 Sep 2006 10:48:20 +0000

Yep, after some google I found it was not related but I have a lot of issues with 3d acceleration (slower screensaver, enemy-territory, and some compiz effects). I will google again.

About the artefacts, they are showing only when the dock is animated.

I’m running xgl with a fglrx driver…

However thanks for your time and patience.

By: MacSlow

MacSlow — Thu, 14 Sep 2006 05:54:18 +0000

@ rodgersan: Hm… that error means your X11-server is missing the "Direct Rendering Interface", so you have no hw-accelerated 3D. But that’s normal for a composited environment afaik. I think it’s unrelated to the artefacts you see at the icon-borders. What compositing-solution do you run? Xgl, xorg with aiglx or xorg with xcompmgr?

By: rodgersan

rodgersan — Tue, 12 Sep 2006 15:40:14 +0000

Okay thanks, it worked but I’ve got an error: Xlib: extension "XFree86-DRI" missing on display ":1.0".

And it looks a bit ugly: http://img236.imageshack.us/img236/5166/capturery6.png

Any clue?