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    Docky cuts off a quarter of my screen :(

    This has never happend to me with docky before. As you can see, there is this massive black line. I have no idea how to get rid of it, i've google'd this with no luck, anyone seen this before?
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    Re: Docky cuts off a quarter of my screen :(

    Hove you tried auto-hide or different docky backgrounds?
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    Re: Docky cuts off a quarter of my screen :(

    Seems that now that my graphics drivers have been activated it has sorted this problem, One more thing. When my graphics drivers are active, the boot spash that says Kubuntu seems to go big, and really lo-res. I noticed this with ubuntu and it looks awful, is there a way to fix that?

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    Re: Docky cuts off a quarter of my screen :(

    docky requires compositing, thats why you had the huge black space.

    what graphics card? i think your talking about a plymouth bug, google it.

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    Re: Docky cuts off a quarter of my screen :(

    Quote Originally Posted by kerry_s View Post
    docky requires compositing, thats why you had the huge black space.

    what graphics card? i think your talking about a plymouth bug, google it.
    I have compositing turned off and mine works fine. Maybe this is only with certain shipsets.
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    Re: Docky cuts off a quarter of my screen :(

    +1
    I used to run Docky constantly, and if, for whatever reason, my Compiz didn't load properly then I got the same black screen.
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    Possibly compiz was just another side-effect of the actual reason.
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    Re: Docky cuts off a quarter of my screen :(

    Quote Originally Posted by jtarin View Post
    I have compositing turned off and mine works fine. Maybe this is only with certain shipsets.
    you must have 1 on, if not compiz(appearance preferences), then your probably using metacity like me.

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    Re: Docky cuts off a quarter of my screen :(

    I stand corrected. It seems Docky does require compositing on, but I will attest to the fact when I used it I never turned it on myself. It it was on, it configured itself that way upon install because I never touched my settings before or after and they are the same now....turned off and unchecked.
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    Re: Docky cuts off a quarter of my screen :(

    Thanks Kerry, enabling metacity works perfect and the effects can be turned off...

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