MacSlow's cairo-clock does not look right on startup

[Vertumnus]

I put cairo-clock in the startup applications list. However, in the startup version of the clock, the shadow is cut off and the hands are off center. No one else seems to have posted about this problem. It only occurs at startup and does not happen when I start the clock manually. Any Ideas? -V

[evoka0]

Happens the same to me :( in 32 bits

[bobcollard]

Instead of putting it in Startup Applications use the Cairo-Dock Congfig to "Launch Cairo Dock at Startup" It's in Gmenu.

[Vertumnus]

Thanks, bobcollard. I am now using Cairo-Dock too and it works much better. For those who use MacSlow's cairo-clock without Cairo-Dock, I found that delaying the launch of cairo-clock at startup helps.

[calande]

Hi guys, same problem here. I don't use Cairo-Dock, just Cairo-Clock. Delaying didn't help:

sleep 5s && cairo-clock
I doesn't even launch on startup... Any idea?
This is how my clock looks like if launched on startup with the regular command:

cairo-clock
http://i51.tinypic.com/dh91k3.png
Thanks,

[stinkeye]

Try as the startup command

bash -c "sleep 5; cairo-clock"

[calande]

Thanks. Here's whan happens with the above command. The Gnome desktop remains empty for 5 seconds, then all icons, bars and applications show up, and the cairo clock shows up in the upper-left corner, cut by half. I doesn't remember the position I had set. Any idea? Thanks.

[stinkeye]

I've had this problem with cairo-clock.
To fix move it to the position you want and resize to your liking.
Then right click on cairo-clock and quit.
You may have to try numerous times before the quit dialogue comes up.

Quitting in this way seems to save the new preferences while other ways
keep the old preferences.

[calande]

Ok, thank you. I tried but with no success... I had a look at the man page and the following code works for me, with no delay launching the clock, simply running at startup:

cairo-clock --xposition 1125 --yposition 50 --width 127 --height 127

[stinkeye]

Ah ok, no probs.... got it working anyway. :D

FYI the preferences are @ ~/.cairo-clockrc

[calande]

Hey guys, I upgraded to natty, and there's another problem :)
There is a white corner now:

http://i53.tinypic.com/316av0k.png

Any idea?
Thanks,

[stinkeye]

Open your ~/.gtkrc-2.0 file.

gedit ~/.gtkrc-2.0

...add this and save.

style "default-style"
{
GtkWindow::resize-grip-height = 0
GtkWindow::resize-grip-width = 0
}

class "GtkWidget" style "default-style"

[calande]

Thanks! Problem solved :)

[calande]

I spoke too fast, now, the clock is weird:

http://i51.tinypic.com/xgdag.png

Any idea?

[stinkeye]

Try quitting cairo-clock, delete your ~/.cairo-clockrc
config file and restart cairo-clock.

[calande]

That was it :)
Thanks again!