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elvino, Monday 02 May 2011 à 06:41
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Subscription date : 02 May 2011
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Greetings!
I am a keen user of cairo-dock (now 2.3) and have used it for some months. I, like many others, changed to Ubuntu 11.04 last week (not an upgrade, a full install) and have now developed a small problem. I can no longer drag an application to the dock. I have the new Ubuntu 11.04 panel AND the cairo-dock running.
It is probably some simple thing I am not doing correctly. Can you help?
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what if you drag the application from the GMenu applet of the dock ?
do you drop it between 2 launchers ? |
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elvino, Monday 02 May 2011 à 22:30
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Subscription date : 02 May 2011
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I have tried dragging from the gmenu (this is the the menu on the left of the screen by default) but that does not work. I do drop it between two launchers as you suggest and the little downward arrows appear telling me that it should work. But it does not appear.
I still have Ubuntu 10.10 installed on another computer and tested cairo-dock on it today and it worked perfectly. I am using the current version of cairo-dock. I also ran cairo-dock from the command line and got this:
warning : (/build/buildd/cairo-dock-2.3.0~1/src/gldit/cairo-dock-module-manager.c:cairo_dock_load_module:167)
while opening module '/usr/lib/cairo-dock/libcd_xfce-integration.so' : (libthunar-vfs-1.so.2: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory)
_cd_find_volume_name_from_drive_name: assertion `pDrive != NULL' failed |
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matttbe, Tuesday 03 May 2011 à 00:56
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Subscription date : 24 January 2009
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I still have Ubuntu 10.10 installed on another computer and tested cairo-dock on it today and it worked perfectly. So it works on a computer with Ubuntu 10.10 with GMenu applet (an applet of Cairo-Dock, not the menu of Gnome) and not on Ubuntu 11.04?
It's strange because it works well for my on Ubuntu Oneiric 11.10 (and I guess it should work on Ubuntu Natty 11.04)
Can you launch the dock from a terminal with this command: and post the output messages that you'll have after having dragged a file into the dock between two other launchers. |
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elvino, Tuesday 03 May 2011 à 02:14
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Subscription date : 02 May 2011
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Thanks so much for helping with this problem!
I am not sure what the gmenu applet is and where I can find it?
Here is the result of your cli request: http://pastebin.com/3MM6W8J7 |
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matttbe, Tuesday 03 May 2011 à 11:17
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Subscription date : 24 January 2009
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I am not sure what the gmenu applet is and where I can find it? GMenu is the Application Menu applet of Cairo-Dock (available in the Desktop section) |
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elvino, Tuesday 03 May 2011 à 11:34
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Subscription date : 02 May 2011
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Ahh.. finally figured it out. Applications have to be dragged from the Application menu. I thought I could drag it directly from the Ubuntu 11.04 menu. Thanks so much for your help and the matter is now solved. |
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matttbe, Tuesday 03 May 2011 à 11:49
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Subscription date : 24 January 2009
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I thought I could drag it directly from the Ubuntu 11.04 menu Yes but the new menu (called dashboard) doesn't have this feature...  |
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Guest, Sunday 04 March 2012 à 20:34
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I landed on this page because I was having a similar problem. I could not even drag an icon from the Application Menu of Cairo-Dock and drop it on to the dock.
I then noticed an "Unlock Icons" option when I right clicked on the dock. When I chose that menu option drag and drop started working again. It makes sense now, but it took me a while to discover the root cause.
I think the real bug is that Cairo-Dock should give a better indication that the icons are locked. As it is the dock shows no sign of the real problem, and just silently refuses to add the new icon. This is a usability glitch.
Perhaps a better approach might be to show a "tool tip" type message to user who is try to drop an icon on to a locked dock hinting about why it won't work. |
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matttbe, Monday 05 March 2012 à 03:16
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fabounet, Wednesday 07 March 2012 à 12:06
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