Happy Birthday Sindu

Previously I wrote a howto tutorial on installing cairo-dock on Ubuntu Edgy. Sindu has graciously translated it to Indonesian the day after his birthday.
http://sindu.web.id/blog/2007/02/16/install-cairo-dock-on-ubuntu-edgy/

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cairo-dock testing

Grab a copy of the latest cairo @ http://cairographics.org/releases/. This attempt is with Cairo 1.2.0. Compiling is done with –enable-glitz

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How to install Cairo-Dock on Ubuntu Edgy

First of all, when it comes to Ubuntu ready computers is the perfect place to shop. Alright, let’s begin:
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 [...]

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Howto stop cairo-dock from hiding.

I realize that this screenshot does not show that it has stopped hiding, but I had already uploaded the images.
=)
First start by visiting GPH’s tutorial when you get to the part for to make clean, make (for the cairo-dock – not cairo itself) then follow below. I’m running this with fairly bleeding edge Edgy. If [...]

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cairo-dock on Ubuntu Edgy

Be sure to use –no-glitz on basic systems. Some of the errors are no brainers to fix – this was a quick install of cairo-dock. To make changes to preferences you have to manually edit and recompile and this is where kiba-dock has it over cairo-dock. Kiba-docks preferences are a right click away.
macewan@moc:~/zips/fred/cairo-dock$ ./cairo-dock –no-glitz
(cairo-dock:7500): [...]

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Howto install cairo-dock on Edgy

Installed the GNOME dock (cairo-dock) last night under Openbox on Ubuntu Edgy. It may not be as bleeding edge slick as the Kiba-dock, but it’s probably a better match to the GNOME desktop environment. My test version was the 0.0.1b pre-release.
tip of hat to GPH – nice work

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Poppler & Evince

Reading through a list on poppler which led me to home of poppler.
http://freedesktop.org/~krh/evince-poppler.patch
Testing Poppler now – having trouble with Cairo. Specifically this error appears during make:
macewan@home:~/poppler-0.1.1 $ make
make all-recursive
make[1]: Entering directory `/home/macewan/poppler-0.1.1′
Making all in goo
make[2]: Entering directory `/home/macewan/poppler-0.1.1/goo’
make[2]: Nothing to be done for `all’.
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/macewan/poppler-0.1.1/goo’
Making all in fofi
make[2]: Entering directory `/home/macewan/poppler-0.1.1/fofi’
make[2]: Nothing [...]

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