Cairo-Dock clock and dustbin theme couldn't be found

[IanVaughan]

On launching Cairo-Dock (from either the "Cairo-Dock (no OpenGL)" or "GLX-Dock")
I get 2 error boxes shown :-
clock : the theme couldn't be found ...
dustbin

I read about trying the following, but no talk of what to do if this fails:


ian@Bart:~$ wget http://themes.cairo-dock.org/liste.txt
--2010-02-06 20:04:25-- http://themes.cairo-dock.org/liste.txt
Resolving themes.cairo-dock.org... failed: Name or service not known.
wget: unable to resolve host address `themes.cairo-dock.org'

ian@Bart:~$ wget "http://themes.cairo-dock.org/themes/liste.txt" -O "/tmp/cairo-dock-net-file.WDY6eR" -t 2 -T 5
--2010-02-06 20:04:47-- http://themes.cairo-dock.org/themes/liste.txt
Resolving themes.cairo-dock.org... failed: Connection timed out.
wget: unable to resolve host address `themes.cairo-dock.org'

[hariks0]

I too face the same problem. Just select the no 'x' in the prompt. It will continue.

[fabounet]

You have to install the latest version (2.1.3)
availabe on Launchpad : :
https://launchpad.net/~cairo-dock-team/+archive/ppa

[agkq62]

I am being very thick. I have downloaded the new version but now don't seem to have any new icons to choose from. On startup a message appears no plugins installed.

[fabounet]

you have to follow the instructions, not to download the tarballs ;-)
it's all automatic then.

[agkq62]

I did follow the instructions under "PPA Description". What did i do wrong.

Thanks.

[fabounet]

maybe when you copied the command you didn't notice the 2nd one is very long and appears on the site on 2 lines
It's actually a single command line.

echo "deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/cairo-dock-team/ppa/ubuntu $(lsb_release -sc) main ## Cairo-Dock-PPA" | sudo tee -a /etc/apt/sources.list
it's only a guess though, you should check in the end of your /etc/apt/sources.list that everything looks correct.

[agkq62]

Thanks getting somewhere, now got the dustbin but still clock problems. The clock details are showing in the config page but as before just the date is showing on the dock.

Any ideas, thanks.

[fabounet]

in the Clock config you can choose to display the date on the icon or not.
also you can choose between a numerical rendering or an analogical one (which has many themes).
Hope this helps.

[agkq62]

The problem is the clock face isn't showing only the date

[agkq62]

Just found out if I restart with the clock active I get a warning message " clock, the theme could not be found"

[agkq62]

Anyone??? I would love to get the clock working.

[rahilm]

what version of cairo-dock are you using??

[agkq62]

Version 2.1.3.2.1ubuntu1-karmic (cairo-dock-core}

[fabounet]

ok, are you under a proxy or with no internet connection ?

anyway you can just right-click on the clock icon -> configure this applet, then select another theme.

[agkq62]

What ever theme I choose the message comes up "theme could not be found.

I am on a broadband internet connection.

[rahilm]

so lets see all the possibilities....
when I had installed cairo-dock , i was facing the EXACT same problem. So, I did a little research here and there and found out that cairo-dock needs to be connected to "cairo-dock.org" to get the themes. But the site was down at that time (and it is till now i suppose), so a fellow forum member suggested me to launch cairo-dock using the following command:

cairo-dock -S http://themes.cairo-dock.vef.fr..It will solve your problem..
I have cairo-dock 2.4.1-0 alpha0, in which they put this by deafult..

so either you can upgrade to the current version (i use the weekly ppa).. or you can configure the cairo-dock launcher from the menu to the above line..

Here is the link to the thread:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1371836&page=2


Reply if you succeed

[fabounet]

the 2.1.3 already has the correct address though.
also, if you're seeing the themes in the list, it means the connection is ok.
so maybe it's a permission problem, try a "chmod -R 777 ~/.config/cairo-dock"

[ghostsounds]

Hi, I'm a n00b to the forums here, but I was having identical problems and I managed to find a solution after some poking around. Hopefully it will work for others.

What I did is right click on the dustbin, select "configure this applet", go to the Module tab in the configuration menu, under theme there's an option of "Choose one of the available themes" click the dropdown menu and select "(Local) Default".
For clock you do the same thing to configure the applet and go to Module, but this time you have to click the "Analogic View" menu within Module and then click the "List of available themes for the analogic display" dropdown.
It seems as though the default theme for those applets are present, but you need to choose them manually to make it work. Choosing the default for both the dustbin and clock resolved the issue for me completely.

[agkq62]

Finally got somewhere, tried opening Cairo-dock with "no OpenGL" and everything worked.

Thanks all for your input

[youngdaddytc]

Hi, I'm a n00b to the forums here, but I was having identical problems and I managed to find a solution after some poking around. Hopefully it will work for others.

What I did is right click on the dustbin, select "configure this applet", go to the Module tab in the configuration menu, under theme there's an option of "Choose one of the available themes" click the dropdown menu and select "(Local) Default".
For clock you do the same thing to configure the applet and go to Module, but this time you have to click the "Analogic View" menu within Module and then click the "List of available themes for the analogic display" dropdown.
It seems as though the default theme for those applets are present, but you need to choose them manually to make it work. Choosing the default for both the dustbin and clock resolved the issue for me completely.

this worked perfectly, thank you. with all the options they have, it's hard to find the ones you need. thanks again.

[Lokesh123]

Hi, I'm a n00b to the forums here, but I was having identical problems and I managed to find a solution after some poking around. Hopefully it will work for others.

For clock you do the same thing to configure the applet and go to Module, but this time you have to click the "Analogic View" menu within Module and then click the "List of available themes for the analogic display" dropdown.
It seems as though the default theme for those applets are present, but you need to choose them manually to make it work. Choosing the default for both the dustbin and clock resolved the issue for me completely.

I am having the same problem with the clock, resulting in crash of the whole system. I installed cairo-dock twice, first through synaptic package manager and then the most recent version through PPA. In both cases the clock caused trouble.

It turned out there is no .cairo-dock directory in home (or elsewhere). When I followed the above steps I discovered there is no analog theme installed but the anolog view is selected. Changing to the digital view made it.

This is weird, it should be a common problem because it comes through standard installation.

Cheers,
Lokesh