[ubuntu] Ubuntu 12.04 and Cairo-dock [Archive]

czgirb

November 24th, 2012, 07:37 AM

makitso

November 24th, 2012, 01:41 PM

IMO Unity on 12.04 does not work well with any dock including Cairo. If you auto hide Unity, it pops open all the time with any desktop object movement. For this reason, I switched to the gnome 3 shell. But, 12.10 behavior of Unity is better and should work with Cairo much better.

zombifier25

November 24th, 2012, 02:12 PM

It is a bug somehow, because my Cairo Dock installation works fine, with no Unity bar. If possible, try disabling Unity in compizconfig-settings-manager

czgirb

November 30th, 2012, 02:46 PM

It is a bug somehow, because my Cairo Dock installation works fine, with no Unity bar. If possible, try disabling Unity in compizconfig-settings-manager

OK! Thank you very much for the guidance.
Previously, when I first install Cairo-dock, in default mode, when I minimized the opened windows, it will be minimized to dock with the same apps icon. Now, since I modified the theme, the minimized windows will be minimized to Unity, instead on dock. How can make the minimized windows back to dock? What setting that I should set?
Please do a favor by guiding me how to do that.
Thank you.

czgirb

December 1st, 2012, 05:01 PM

Please help ...............

cybergalvez

December 1st, 2012, 07:08 PM

Please help ...............

it sounds like you have logged into * Cairo-Dock (with Unity Panel). As was alrady mentioned I would not run cairo and unity I don't think they play nicely together. I would either run Cairo as the session manager (one of the first two selections) or as I do with gnome-shell where it works guite nicely

czgirb

December 2nd, 2012, 05:17 PM

it sounds like you have logged into * Cairo-Dock (with Unity Panel). As was alrady mentioned I would not run cairo and unity I don't think they play nicely together. I would either run Cairo as the session manager (one of the first two selections) or as I do with gnome-shell where it works guite nicely
On a login screen there is:
* Cairo-Dock (GNOME+Effect)
* Cairo-Dock (GNOME+No Effect)
* Cairo-Dock (with Unity Panel)
Three option to choose.
But no matter what I choose (exclude GNOME+No Effect)
I still able to see the hidden Unity.
Is it normal? How can I turn-off the Unity?
Please guide me.

Krytarik

December 2nd, 2012, 10:58 PM

On a login screen there is:
* Cairo-Dock (GNOME+Effect)
* Cairo-Dock (GNOME+No Effect)
* Cairo-Dock (with Unity Panel)
Three option to choose.
But no matter what I choose (exclude GNOME+No Effect)
I still able to see the hidden Unity.
Is it normal? How can I turn-off the Unity?
Please guide me.
Well, zombifier25 already told you that a week ago, maybe you wanna try that now, finally:

...try disabling Unity in compizconfig-settings-manager
Regards.

czgirb

December 3rd, 2012, 06:16 PM

Well, zombifier25 already told you that a week ago, maybe you wanna try that now, finally:

Regards.

Yup! I wish to do that.
But after I do that, I unable to recognized which is IS.
Example: Firefox, I opened 3-windows ... main, library, and download windows.
In default settings, I will had 3 firefox icon on dock.
But now, in dock I had 1 icon only not three (default).
So I wish to set current theme to default settings.
But I don't know how to do that.

Krytarik

December 3rd, 2012, 08:27 PM

Yup! I wish to do that.
But after I do that, I unable to recognized which is IS.
Example: Firefox, I opened 3-windows ... main, library, and download windows.
In default settings, I will had 3 firefox icon on dock.
But now, in dock I had 1 icon only not three (default).
So, now, the question is not anymore how to disable Unity in the Cairo-Dock sessions, but how to get Cairo-Dock to behave like what you say is the default, right?

czgirb

December 4th, 2012, 07:34 AM

So, now, the question is not anymore how to disable Unity in the Cairo-Dock sessions, but how to get Cairo-Dock to behave like what you say is the default, right?

Bingo!
The other question is:
How can I still have 6-digital clock and able to see it everytime I wants. Cos if I disabled the Unity. It'll caused the Top Panel to be disappeared also.
In order to distinguished a file, in file's name, I often put 6-digital clock behind. So I know when the file was updated.

Krytarik

December 4th, 2012, 07:52 AM

Cos if I disabled the Unity. It'll caused the Top Panel to be disappeared also.
If you want the Unity Panel without the Unity Launcher, that's what the bold-marked session is for, it's using the Unity 2D Panel:

On a login screen there is:
* Cairo-Dock (GNOME+Effect)
* Cairo-Dock (GNOME+No Effect)
* Cairo-Dock (with Unity Panel)
Three option to choose.

czgirb

December 4th, 2012, 04:16 PM

If you want the Unity Panel without the Unity Launcher, that's what the bold-marked session is for, it's using the Unity 2D Panel:
As I said in the 1st thread:

On a login screen there is:
* Cairo-Dock (GNOME+Effect)
* Cairo-Dock (GNOME+No Effect)
* Cairo-Dock (with Unity Panel)
Three option to choose.
But no matter what I choose (exclude GNOME+No Effect)
I still able to see the Unity.
If you said it was called the launcher ... OK! I do not want to see the launcher ... I just wants panel only.
Please guide me ....

Krytarik

December 4th, 2012, 10:17 PM

If you said it was called the launcher ... OK! I do not want to see the launcher ... I just wants panel only.
Please guide me ....
Should I just repeat my previous post now!? :P

graphius

December 5th, 2012, 02:11 AM

czgirb

December 8th, 2012, 05:21 AM

Should I just repeat my previous post now!? :P

Dear Mr. Krytarik:

On a login screen there is:
* Cairo-Dock (GNOME+Effect)
* Cairo-Dock (GNOME+No Effect)
* Cairo-Dock (with Unity Panel)
Three option to choose.
But NO MATTER what session I choose (exclude GNOME+No Effect)
I still able to see the Unity.
Please pay an attention to the BOLD mark

czgirb

December 8th, 2012, 05:35 AM

I really don't want to stir things up, but the pain of Unity and Cairo Dock is one of the things that sent me to Mint.

Another option that *may* work for you is to install XFCE and remove unity. A guide is at psychocats.net (http://psychocats.net/ubuntu/purexubuntu). This option is not quite as pretty though...

Dear Mr. Graphius,
If I install XFCE and removes the Unity, what will my desktop looks like? Where can I learn more about XFCE? Please show me ...

Krytarik

December 8th, 2012, 06:17 AM

Dear Mr. Krytarik:

On a login screen there is:
* Cairo-Dock (GNOME+Effect)
* Cairo-Dock (GNOME+No Effect)
* Cairo-Dock (with Unity Panel)
Three option to choose.
But NO MATTER what session I choose (exclude GNOME+No Effect)
I still able to see the Unity.Please pay an attention to the BOLD mark
You know, I'm not going to run in circles with you ;-) :

So, now, the question is not anymore how to disable Unity in the Cairo-Dock sessions, but how to get Cairo-Dock to behave like what you say is the default, right?
Bingo!
... Cos if I disabled the Unity. It'll caused the Top Panel to be disappeared also.