How to install Cairo-Dock on Ubuntu Edgy
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check for build-essentials
sudo apt-get install build-essential
sudo apt-get install librsvg2-bin librsvg2-common librsvg2-dev libglitz-glx1 libglitz-glx1-dev
wget http://www.macewan.org/cairo-1.2.6.tar.gz
tar -xzf cairo-1.2.6.tar.gz
rm cair*.gz
cd cair*
./configure –enable-warnings –enable-glitz –disable-quartz –disable-atsui –disable-xcb –disable-win32 –disable-gtk-doc
make
sudo make install
cd ../
wget http://www.macewan.org/cairo-dock.tar.gz
sudo mv cairo-dock.tar.gz /opt
cd /opt
sudo tar -xzf cairo-dock.tar.gz
sudo rm cairo-dock*.gz
cd cairo-dock
sudo make clean
sudo make
./cairo-dock –no-glitz
Icons not transparent?
Using Beryl alleviates this.
Don’t want to use Beryl?
OK, stop the cairo-dock.
xcompmgr
./cairo-dock –no-glitz
How do I stop cairo-dock from hidding?
OK, stop the cairo-dock.
wget http://www.macewan.org/cairo-dock.c
sudo make
./cairo-dock –no-glitz
Credit goes to cairo-dock-pimp GPH for starting the ball rolling.
Daniel
on February 7th, 2007
Thanks for this, works just fine! Well, almost. For some reason, only the DC++ icon will show up. All the other SVG files are there as well, and they are referenced correctly in cairo-dock.c, but somehow none of the icons apart from dc++.svg will show up in the docker. Why is this?
Sean
on February 14th, 2007
I had the same issue. I replaced the SVGs with my own and adjusted the code as I saw fit — it is very easy to find the icon locations and commands they execute in cairo-dock.c. I also found that SVGs around 48×48 look good. Once you’ve adjusted the source as you like, run make clean and make — then start it again.
sindu
on February 17th, 2007
Thank for your article it’s help me a lot, and work’s just fine to..
, i wrote in Indonesian version also so may collage can enjoy the beauty Cairo Dock.. pls visit my web to http://sindu.web.id/blog/2007/02/16/install-cairo-dock-on-ubuntu-edgy/
and give your comment for my correction
Daniel
on February 27th, 2007
Haha, thanks Sean. I guess this solution was too banal, so I didn’t think of checking it out, but indeed all of the SVGs but one are currupt…
mike
on April 3rd, 2007
came across your guide as the first hit in google. congrats.
Your tutorial was concise. I love it. clear and to the point. Successfully installed it. However, may I suggest that you update the guide to reflect the latest cairo release (1.4.2).
As well, I do not know if there has been a later release of cairo-dock as of yet, if so, an update would be plentiful.
One sad problem.
running sudo make after downloading the no-hide fix (cairo-dock.c) I get a return:
lotacus@lotacus-desktop:/opt/cairo-dock$ sudo make
make: Nothing to be done for `all’.
my guess would be to redo the first steps when extracting cairo-dock.tar.gz and replacing the old cairo.dock.c with the modified one?
Jose
on April 7th, 2007
I was doing great until the very end.
It keeps on saying:
jose@jose-laptop:/opt/cairo-dock$ make
cc `pkg-config –cflags cairo gtk+-2.0 librsvg-2.0 glitz-glx` -DHAVE_GLITZ `pkg-config –libs cairo gtk+-2.0 librsvg-2.0 glitz-glx` -lm cairo-dock.c -o cairo-dock
cairo-dock.c:52:25: error: cairo-glitz.h: No such file or directory
cairo-dock.c: In function ‘dock_cairo_create’:
cairo-dock.c:184: warning: assignment makes pointer from integer without a cast
make: *** [cairo-dock] Error 1
how do i resolve this?
Are you using Edgy?
Are you following the directions correctly?
Neil
on April 17th, 2007
All works well if I run cairo-dock as in the instructions – if I run ‘./cairo-dock –no-glitz’ when in folder ‘/opt/cairo-dock’. However, I can’t run it from any other location using ‘/opt/cairo-dock/cairo-dock –no-glitz’. The dock appears, but about 1 cm wide, and 3 times as tall as it should be, with all the (invisible) icons on top of each other. This means I can’t run it except in a terminal, and I don’t want a terminal open dedicated to running the dock. Any ideas?
David Leite
on April 26th, 2007
Good, nice, mac like, professional looking… but how do I set it up ? haha
Robert
on October 15th, 2007
When i’m using wget http://www.macewan.org/cairo-1.2.6.tar.gz, i get a 404 Error. I think that the archive isn’t there anymore. Can you help me please?
Thanks in advance
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Tony
on February 16th, 2008
Hi. Thanks for this howto! I like this app a lot… kinda brings the GUI into the modern day for Linux. I do have a question thought…
I installed v1.4.6.3 originally, and everything went great. I recently upgraded to v1.5.0.1 and now I cannot customize the icons now. No matter what I do, all I get is that blue “?” I am using .png files (like I did on 1.4) and I have tried some .svg files too, I have copied those images into /usr/share/cairo-dock dir and still nothing…
Can anyone give me a reason / solution for why this is happening?
Thanks!
-Tony