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#X [How do I position applets and taskbar icons at the beginning of the dock?]
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#{Hint : if you delete an icon pointing to a sub-dock, you will be offered to either delete the sub-dock’s icons or to move them in the main dock.}
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#{Tip: If you have multiple screens managed by Xinerama, you can tick the option «Use Xinerama», and choose the screen where you wish your dock to be positioned.}
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#> This is normal, because they are both «docks». You can either move the dock out of the panel, or launch it wih the command «cairo-dock --keep-above».
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#X [So then, how can I remove completely the gnome-panel?]
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#X [How can I change quickly the luminosity of my screen ?]
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#If you're under Gnome, you can activate it in Metacity in this way :
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# Open gconf-editor, edit the key '/apps/metacity/general/compositing_manager' and set it to 'true'.
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#{Hint : If yo have an ATI or an Intel, you should try without OpenGL first, because their drivers are not yet perfect.}
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#{Hint : If you have an ATI or an Intel card, you should try without OpenGL first, because their drivers are not yet perfect.}
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#X [My machine is too old to run a composite manager]
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#X [My machine is too old to run a composite manager.]
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#> Don’t panic, Cairo-Dock can emulate the transparency.
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#So to get rid of the black background, just activate the corresponding option, in the end of the “System” module
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#X [The dock is horribly slow when I move the mouse into it]
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#X [The dock is horribly slow when I move the mouse into it.]
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#> If you have a GeForce8, you have to install the latest drivers, because the first ones were really buggy.
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#If the dock is running without openGL, try to reduce the number of icons in the main dock, or try to reduce its size.
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#If the dock is running with openGL, try to deactivate it by launching the dock with “cairo-dock –c”.
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#X [I don’t have these wonderful effects like fire, cube rotating, etc]
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#X [I don't have these wonderful effects like fire, cube rotating, etc.]
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#> You need a graphic card with drivers that support openGL2.0. Most of Nvidia cards can do that, more and more Intel cards can do too. Most of ATI cards can’t do that.
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#{Hint : You can force the openGL by launching the dock with “cairo-dock –o”.but you might get a lot of visual artifacts.}
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#> You need a graphics card with drivers that support OpenGL2.0. Most Nvidia cards can do this, as can more and more Intel cards. Most ATI cards do not support OpenGL2.0.
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#{Tip: You can force OpenGL by launching the dock with «cairo-dock -o».but you might get a lot of visual artifacts.}
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#X [I don't have any themes in the Theme Manager, except the default one.]
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#> Be sure that you are connected to the Net.
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# If your connection is very slow, you can increase the connection timeout in the "System" module.
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# If you're under a proxy, you'll have to configure "curl" to use it; search on the web how to do it (basically, you have to set up the "http_proxy" environment variable).
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#{Hint : Until the version 2.1.1-2, wget was used.}
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#{Hint : Up to version 2.1.1-2, wget was used.}
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#X [The “netspeed” applet displays 0 even when I’m downloading something]
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#X [The «netspeed» applet displays 0 even when I'm downloading something]
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#> You have to tell it which interface you’re using to connect to the Net (by default, it’s “eth0”).
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#Just edit its configuration, and enter the interface’s name. To find it, type “ifconfig” in a terminal, and ignore the “loop” interface. It’s probably something like “eth1”, “ath0”, or “wifi0”.
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#{Hint : you can instantiate this applet many times if you want to monitor many interfaces.}
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#{Tip: you can run several instances of this applet if you wish to monitor several interfaces.}
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#X [The dustbin remains empty even when I delete a file]
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#X [The dustbin remains empty even when I delete a file.]
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#> if you’re under KDE, you may have to tell it the path of the trash folder.
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#Just edit the applet’s configuration, and fill in the Trash path; it is probably “~/.locale/share/Trash/files”. Be very careful when typing a path here !!! (do not insert spaces or some invisible caracters).
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#> We value your help ! If you see a bug, or if you think something could be improved,
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#or if you just made a dream about the dock, pay us a visit on glx-dock.org.
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#English speakers are welcome, so don’t be shy ! ;-)