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Dan English 8 fabounet [Read]
15 May 2009 à 12:18

Dan, Thursday 14 May 2009 à 07:53


Subscription date : 14 May 2009
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alright, first off, just letting you know that i don't speak french at all, just english and spanish.

next, i want to install the Elementary Cairo-Dock, but since i'm so new to linux, half of the instructions that came along confuse me. generally im good with computers (or i was when i was with windows, but i hate microsoft and macs are too expensive so im here now lol), but i still am a new user. SSSOOOO, i finally came to this forum.

Here are the instructions so you don't have to find them or anything:

Nikola Yanev (i think lol) :

How to add Main Menu in Cairo Dock

!!!TO BE MADE FIRST !!!

As far as I know there is "no" main menu available for cairo-dock at the moment. The work-around that I found is to set up cairo-dock the way you like it. Make sure you set cairo-dock to load at boot by going to Preferences>Sessions and add it. Then open ccsm and enable "Widget Layer". Add this to the "Behavior" tab...
Code:

name=gnome-panel

Clean everything but the "Applications-Places-System" (main menu) off of the panel (you only need to keep one panel). When and if you need access to main menu hit your F9 key and the hidden panel will pop up. Hit F9 again to hide it.
BTW, I have tried kiba-dock, gdesklets and others and cairo-dock worked the best for me. YMMV!
Also, just drag the icons for apps you want to the dock to add them. It is also easy to make a sub-dock so you don't end up with a cluttered main dock.

(and others answers here: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=821896 )

THEN

download this script from here: http://ubuntuforums.org/attachment.php?attachmentid=75749&d=1214791021
by carrara47
or use included in the archive

Download the archive and extract it.
It contains only the script, named cairo-menu
Then open a terminal, go in the directory in which you have open the archive and run
Code:

chmod +x cairo-menu

to make it excutable.
The script allows two actions, add and remove, on three possible targets, i.e. applications, system and all.
For example running
Code:

./cairo-menu add applications # add the applications menu
./cairo-menu add all # add both system and applications menu
./cairo-menu remove system # remove only the system menu

and so on.
Use the -h option to quickly remember those options.

It now should be appeared in the upper dock (actually it's the main), under the Menu sub-dock

Now if everything is OK, you should have the same like on the screenshot @ gnome-files
cheers
read here also for more info or if u have problems
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=699970&page=2


i was able to add cairo-dock.conf to the startup app list no problem. then i restarted my computer of course and the next piece of instruction says to open ccsm, and i have no clue how to do that. i don't know where it is at or if it stands for something else. ill just start from there, maybe ill be able to understand the rest after this, thanks

Rom1, Thursday 14 May 2009 à 10:08


Subscription date : 18 March 2008
Messages : 451
Hi Dan

Cairo-dock installation is very easy, did you look at the wiki ? http://www.glx-dock.org/ww_page.php?p=Accueil&lang=en
If you are running Ubuntu, you can add the repository and install cairo-dock and cairo-dock-plug-ins
The Gnome main menu is available with the GMenu applet

I suggest you to undo want you did, and start again with the wiki information

Don't hesitate you post here if you need help

matttbe, Thursday 14 May 2009 à 10:34


Subscription date : 24 January 2009
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And there is this theme in Theme Menu / Manager. (Or download the tarball (elementary) and drag and drop it in the Theme Menu/Manager)

Guest, Thursday 14 May 2009 à 12:03

ok, i did what the guide told me to do, but it says that there's 2 packages or something--here's what it said:

terminal :

pluto@plutoisaplanet:~/udock$ autoreconf -isvf && ./configure --prefix=/usr && make
The program 'autoreconf' can be found in the following packages:
    • autoconf
    • autoconf2.13

Try: sudo apt-get install <selected package>
bash: autoreconf: command not found


do i put in "sudo apt-get install autoconf" or "sudo apt-get install autoconf2.13"?

matttbe, Thursday 14 May 2009 à 13:01


Subscription date : 24 January 2009
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I advise you to don't follow this guide... You just have to import this "elementary" theme after installing Cairo-Dock with repository (like Rom1 says)

Rom1, Thursday 14 May 2009 à 15:14


Subscription date : 18 March 2008
Messages : 451
Dan,
I checked your Elementary Cairo-Dock theme link, and I understand now how it is working
In fact, you must have the cairo-dock fully working before wanted to install the theme

Once your Cairo-dock is running, you can download the "Ubuntu (elementary)" package and apply it with the cairo-dock theme manager

Guest, Thursday 14 May 2009 à 15:39

o wow i went to the wrong place to find how to install it with repository, but yeah now i got it working

Pouet, Thursday 14 May 2009 à 21:33


Subscription date : 30 November 2007
Messages : 605
First ccsm is the compiz configuration manager. So nothing to do with cairo-dock. Just tell us your linux distrib, and then we will be able to help you.

fabounet, Friday 15 May 2009 à 12:18


Subscription date : 30 November 2007
Messages : 17118
As far as I know there is "no" main menu available for cairo-dock at the moment

that's very outdated ! the GMenu applet provides the Main Menu.

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