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Mr.TAEL
December 17th, 2009, 11:26 PM
Hi guys,

I installed Cairo Dock, but I have problem with running it via openGl. I have Dell Inspiron 6400 with ATI Mobility Radeon x1400 graphic card. When I run Cairo Dock (with openGl), it shows like this screen shot.

http://kimag.es/share/47958579.png

What's the problem? What should I do or install ?

Regards.

fabounet
December 17th, 2009, 11:35 PM
if you have the latest ATI drivers, you should probably run it with cairo-dock -c

danielesil
December 18th, 2009, 12:10 AM
cairo-dock-o is the command to run it with openGL
Otherwise you can try with cairo-dock-c

If you can't fix it, you may want to install from source.
You need to install :
sudo apt-get install build-essential (so you have the compiler)
sudo apt-get build-dep (so you have all the dependencies needed)

Then you go to the directory with "cd"
then
./configure
sudo make
sudo make install

Et voila !!!

mCion
December 18th, 2009, 08:32 PM
if you go to system configuration within Cairo-dock you can turn on "emulate fake transparency"

I;ve heard that helps.

For me, also with an ATI card it takes care of the black backgrounf, but Im left with a Weird halo surrounding Cairo dock

fabounet
December 19th, 2009, 02:03 AM
a Weird halo surrounding Cairo dock
probably the shadow made by the WM

mCion
December 20th, 2009, 09:59 PM
You're right. Switching back to Metacity takes care of the Halo.

Still can't get OpenGL working fine though. Using AWN for now...

Thanks