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Subscription date : 21 July 2011
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Hi guys!
First of all I want to congratulate with you because you have created the best dock of the world! I love it! 
I'd have just a pair of questions about it:
- Is there a way to keep Cairo Dock only on Ubuntu with classic interface (Gnome) and not in Unity?
- On cairo dock I put "Compiz Icon" applet and I noticed that if I click on it using the middle click of mouse all the Compiz effects are disabled. But is this the real function or it happens only to me? If so, I think it's a great feature because it replaces "Compiz Switch" which is unavailable on Ubuntu 11.04. I love Compiz effects, but sometimes I need to disable them otherwise all the videos that I see tend to be slow crawl.
Thank you very much in advance! |
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matttbe, Thursday 21 July 2011 à 20:43
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Subscription date : 24 January 2009
Messages : 12573
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Hello,
Is there a way to keep Cairo Dock only on Ubuntu with classic interface (Gnome) and not in Unity? Yes maybe... I guess you can use a script to detect if Unity is launched or not. I don't use Unity so I don't know if it works but you can have something like that: if [[ `ps aux | grep -e "[u]nity" ` ]]; then
echo "Unity is launched"
else
cairo-dock
fi
Maybe something like that: if test -n "`ps aux | grep -e "[c]ompiz"`"; then
bUnityIsLaunched=0
if test -f "$HOME/.config/compiz-1/compizconfig/Default.ini"; then
pluginsFlat=`grep "s0_active_plugins" $HOME/.config/compiz-1/compizconfig/Default.ini`
if test `echo $pluginsFlat | grep -c unityshell` -eq 1; then
bUnityIsLaunched=1
fi
fi
if test $bUnityIsLaunched -eq 0 -a -n "`which gconftool-2`"; then
plugins=`gconftool-2 -g /apps/compiz-1/general/screen0/options/active_plugins`
if test `echo $plugins | grep -c unityshell` -eq 1; then
bUnityIsLaunched=1
fi
fi
if test $bUnityIsLaunched -eq 0; then
cairo-dock
fi
else
cairo-dock
fi
On cairo dock I put "Compiz Icon" applet and I noticed that if I click on it using the middle click of mouse all the Compiz effects are disabled. But is this the real function or it happens only to me? In fact, Compiz is replaced by another window manager (Metacity I guess, so without any effects) |
Subscription date : 21 July 2011
Messages : 10
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Hi matttbe! Many thanks for your reply.
Well, I tried to create a script as you said me but unfortunately when I start Ubuntu with Unity interface the Cairo Dock hasn't been removed, on the contrary appears another cairo dock so I had two docks until I removed the script from the list of the applications launched at startup. |
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matttbe, Friday 22 July 2011 à 02:17
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Subscription date : 24 January 2009
Messages : 12573
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Yes but you also have to remove Cairo-Dock from the list of these applications launched at startup  |
Subscription date : 21 July 2011
Messages : 10
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OK, now it seems works
I wanted to do this thing just for curiosity, but I have to admit that Unity I don't like at all so I use it very few times. I prefer Gnome (with cairo dock of course :-)) because in my opinion Unity is too buggy and not too customizable, at least until this moment.
By the way thank you very much for all matttbe, it was very kind of you!
Bye! |
Subscription date : 30 November 2007
Messages : 17118
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On cairo dock I put "Compiz Icon" applet and I noticed that if I click on it using the middle click of mouse all the Compiz effects are disabled. But is this the real function or it happens only to me?
yes, this is made to quickly switch between Compiz and another WM (for games for instance).
the applet has been replaced by the Composite-Manager applet in the 2.4. |
Subscription date : 21 July 2011
Messages : 10
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fabounet : On cairo dock I put "Compiz Icon" applet and I noticed that if I click on it using the middle click of mouse all the Compiz effects are disabled. But is this the real function or it happens only to me?
yes, this is made to quickly switch between Compiz and another WM (for games for instance).
the applet has been replaced by the Composite-Manager applet in the 2.4.
It's a really great feature!
Thank you very much fabounet.
Bye! |
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