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Sememmon English 28 matttbe [Read]
03 December 2013 à 15:02

Sememmon, Friday 14 December 2012 à 23:24


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Long time cairo-dock / linux user .. after a recent update to cairo-dock, I now have white outlines around every icon (including the indicator icon) as seen here: https://www.dropbox.com/s/sfo3bcflyrj2vls/bug2.png This is running in non-opengl mode. I've tried wiping my config and the behaviour remains.

In open gl mode (direct or indirect), most of my icons disappear and only some are drawn as I mouse through the dock: https://www.dropbox.com/s/3or07v87wr7bycf/bug1.png Unlike the above problem with the white borders, which I've only recently started experiencing, this problem has existed for a while on this laptop. I've ignored it because non-opengl mode has been sufficient for me until this recent problem.

Some pertinent info:

Ubuntu 12.10

Cairo-Dock version : 3.1.2
Compiled date : Dec 2 2012 00:22:04
Built with GTK : 3.6

installed from
deb http://download.tuxfamily.org/glxdock/repository/ubuntu quantal cairo-dock

00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 3rd Gen Core processor Graphics Controller (rev 09)

OpenGL vendor string: Intel Open Source Technology Center
OpenGL renderer string: Mesa DRI Intel(R) Ivybridge Mobile
OpenGL version string: 3.0 Mesa 9.0
OpenGL shading language version string: 1.30

direct rendering: Yes
server glx vendor string: SGI
server glx version string: 1.4
client glx vendor string: Mesa Project and SGI
client glx version string: 1.4

$ uname -a
Linux 3.5.0-19-generic #30-Ubuntu SMP Tue Nov 13 17:48:01 UTC 2012 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

Any ideas what is going on here?

matttbe, Saturday 15 December 2012 à 17:38


Subscription date : 24 January 2009
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Hello Sememmon! Oh I see you're no longer using Gentoo but Ubuntu

About this bug, I think it's unfortunately due to a bug in your Intel drivers (I guess you have a Intel 4000HD). Can you have a look at this bug report and confirm that you've the same bug (or not) => https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=55036.
I hope this bug will be fixed asap!

Sememmon, Monday 17 December 2012 à 01:02


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Yes, no more Gentoo. I've gotten lazy with my linux distros so just running ubuntu and mint.

So, that definitely reflects the problem I'm experiencing in OpenGL mode. However, it does not cover the weird white outlines I've got around all the icons (including the indicator one) I've got in non-OpenGL mode.

Any ideas why that is happening?

matttbe, Monday 17 December 2012 à 16:09


Subscription date : 24 January 2009
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Any ideas why that is happening?
No Do you have this bug with the default theme?
cairo-dock -d ~/cd_test

It's strange and this why I guess this problem is due to your video drivers. Or maybe did you enable some options of Cairo (libcairo) to enable experimental support of OpenGL (but I guess you need to recompile libcairo to enable that thing)

Sememmon, Monday 17 December 2012 à 17:07


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It does still happen with the default theme.

I've not enabled anything in cairo or recompiled anything.

All I've done is kept cairo-dock up to date via the weekly ppa. I'm pondering digging up an older version just to test with that...

matttbe, Monday 17 December 2012 à 22:30


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All I've done is kept cairo-dock up to date via the weekly ppa. I'm pondering digging up an older version just to test with that...
I've to update it. I'll do that asap!

Sememmon, Wednesday 19 December 2012 à 19:53


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Will your update fix the white boxes I've got around icons?

matttbe, Wednesday 19 December 2012 à 21:21


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No but before this new update, this repository contained an older version than this one available in the 'stable' ppa.

Sememmon, Wednesday 19 December 2012 à 21:27


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I see.

I'd like to point out that cairo-dock was working fine on my local install for quite some time. It has only recently started drawing white boxes around everything. So, I'm not sure what changed, but I am confident that it is not a hardware issue. Considering it is not running in opengl mode when this happens, I'm hesitant to blame it on drivers, too.

I believe that either a software package changed for the worse recently.. or something in cairo-dock did.

If you have any suggestions on how I could go about tracking down the problem, I'd love to hear them. At this point, I'm at a loss for what to do and am just enduring the ugliness of the white boxes. I actually have looked for alternative docks because of this, but discovered it looked like AWN has been abandoned.

So.. yeah.. a little help, please? =]

matttbe, Wednesday 19 December 2012 à 22:00


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I think it's the first time that someone report this bug with white boxes without OpenGL backend. This is strange... it's drawn with cairo (libcairo) and it should work fine.

Do you use some experimental ppa?
apt-cache policy libcairo2

You can maybe try newer drivers by using this ppa: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-x-swat/+archive/x-updates
(or if you really want to test the latest version: https://launchpad.net/~xorg-edgers/+archive/ppa. It can be unstable but you can use ppa-purge to downgrade)

Sememmon, Friday 21 December 2012 à 19:03


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$ apt-cache policy libcairo2
libcairo2:
Installed: 1.12.2-1ubuntu2.2
Candidate: 1.12.2-1ubuntu2.2
Version table:
*** 1.12.2-1ubuntu2.2 0
500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ quantal-updates/main amd64 Packages
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
1.12.2-1ubuntu2 0
500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ quantal/main amd64 Packages


I'll give the driver updates a try.

Sememmon, Friday 21 December 2012 à 19:50


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So I added x-updates .. and when I updated that, I saw the system also pulled in a bunch of other updates including some for cairo-dock. After restarting the dock, my white boxes have disappeared. So, yay for that! However, it still doesn't work happily in OpenGL mode (same problem as before).

So, I'm "good enough" for the moment .. I'd really like to get OpenGL to cooperate eventually, but at least I can use the dock without crying. ^_^

Thanks!

matttbe, Friday 21 December 2012 à 20:01


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I'd really like to get OpenGL to cooperate eventually
Yes, me too. It's an annoying bug and people can think that it's a bug in Cairo-Dock and forgot to test Cairo backend...
I hope this bug will be fixed soon!

Sememmon, Saturday 05 January 2013 à 00:31


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No longer resolved.. the weird white boxes are back! =( =( =(

matttbe, Saturday 05 January 2013 à 01:48


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Maybe better with the xorg-edger ppa? But it's maybe more unstable
Did you reported this bug to developers of your drivers?

Sememmon, Monday 07 January 2013 à 16:44


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I've not reported anything anywhere but here, so far. You are certain that this is a driver issue? Even though I'm not running in OpenGL mode?

matttbe, Wednesday 09 January 2013 à 00:20


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Yes, I'm pretty sure. Or it's maybe because you're using experimental apps (Cairo, GTK, Compiz, X11 things, Kernel, etc.) but it seems not.

It's a problem with the drawing of these icons and you also have this bug with the default theme. If it's not the video drivers (or something else linked to that: kernel, X11), I don't know what's wrong. (Maybe did you try the latest daily live of the current Ubuntu development version? => http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/daily-live/current/)

Sememmon, Thursday 10 January 2013 à 19:00


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In addition to default 12.04, I'm running the latest goodies from:

http://ppa.launchpad.net/gnome3-team/gnome3/ubuntu
http://ppa.launchpad.net/ubuntu-x-swat/x-updates/ubuntu
http://ppa.launchpad.net/diwic/hda/ubuntu
http://ppa.launchpad.net/cairo-dock-team/weekly/ubuntu

I'm running pure gnome3/gnome-shell .. no unity or compiz.

Does that change your thoughts at all?

matttbe, Thursday 10 January 2013 à 19:24


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No except if diwic/hda ppa modifies some kernel modules but I guess not (or not related to your video drivers).

But it will maybe be better on Ubuntu Raring? => http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTI3MTI

Guest, Thursday 07 February 2013 à 00:08

@ ununtu 13.04 same problems
any solution??

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