cairodock

[frannkke]

Hi
I have been using Vector linux 7 for a while now and it's great. However the cairo-dock has disappeared and I cannot restore it. Can anyone help please.
Thanks
Frank

[stretchedthin]

Cairodock can be started as either opengl or non-opengl

Menu->System->Cairo-Dock (No opengl)
or
Menu->System->GLX-Dock (Cairo-Dock with openGL)

If either of those don't get it started try this in the terminal and post any errors that come up.
cairo-dock -c

[tunit]

Cairodock can be started as either opengl or non-opengl

Menu->System->Cairo-Dock (No opengl)
or
Menu->System->GLX-Dock (Cairo-Dock with openGL)

If either of those don't get it started try this in the terminal and post any errors that come up.
cairo-dock -c

Hello, I am having the same problem. Here's my output:

muneer:$ cairo-dock -c

 ============================================================================
   Cairo-Dock version: 2.4.0~1
   Compiled date:  Sep 28 2011 16:12:50
   Running with OpenGL: 0
 ============================================================================

/usr/share/themes/Caramello/gtk-2.0/gtkrc:79: Murrine configuration option "gradients" is no longer supported and will be ignored.
Binding '<Control>F3' failed!
warning :  (/home/benreilly/build/cairo-dock/2.4.0~1/tmp/cairo-dock-2.4.0~1/src/gldit/cairo-dock-keybinder.c:cd_keybinder_bind:311) 
  Couldn't bind <Control>F3
 This shortkey is probably already used by another applet or another application
warning :  (/home/benreilly/build/cairo-dock/2.4.0~1/tmp/cairo-dock-2.4.0~1/src/gldit/cairo-dock-launcher-manager.c:cairo_dock_launch_command_sync:480) 
  which: no rhythmbox-client in (/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/bin:/sbin:/usr/sbin:/opt/bin:/usr/X11/bin:/usr/local/games:/usr/games:/usr/lib/java/bin:/opt/kde3/lib/qt3/bin:/opt/kde3/bin:/usr/lib/qt/bin)

warning :  (/home/benreilly/build/cairo-dock/2.4.0~1/tmp/cairo-dock-2.4.0~1/src/cairo-dock.c:_cairo_dock_intercept_signal:167) 
  Cairo-Dock has crashed (sig 11).
It will be restarted now.
Feel free to report this bug on glx-dock.org to help improving the dock!
info on the system :
Linux pcserver.pcclient.org 3.0.8 #1 SMP Sun Oct 30 17:20:23 MDT 2011 i686 Intel(R) Celeron(R) CPU          550  @ 2.00GHz GenuineIntel GNU/Linux
The applet 'Folders' may be the culpritrestarting with 'cairo-dock -c -x "Folders" -w 2 -q 1'...

 ============================================================================
   Cairo-Dock version: 2.4.0~1
   Compiled date:  Sep 28 2011 16:12:50
   Running with OpenGL: 0
 ============================================================================

/usr/share/themes/Caramello/gtk-2.0/gtkrc:79: Murrine configuration option "gradients" is no longer supported and will be ignored.
Binding '<Control>F3' failed!
warning :  (/home/benreilly/build/cairo-dock/2.4.0~1/tmp/cairo-dock-2.4.0~1/src/gldit/cairo-dock-keybinder.c:cd_keybinder_bind:311) 
  Couldn't bind <Control>F3
 This shortkey is probably already used by another applet or another application
warning :  (/home/benreilly/build/cairo-dock/2.4.0~1/tmp/cairo-dock-2.4.0~1/src/gldit/cairo-dock-launcher-manager.c:cairo_dock_launch_command_sync:480) 
  which: no rhythmbox-client in (/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/bin:/sbin:/usr/sbin:/opt/bin:/usr/X11/bin:/usr/local/games:/usr/games:/usr/lib/java/bin:/opt/kde3/lib/qt3/bin:/opt/kde3/bin:/usr/lib/qt/bin)

warning :  (/home/benreilly/build/cairo-dock/2.4.0~1/tmp/cairo-dock-2.4.0~1/src/cairo-dock.c:_cairo_dock_intercept_signal:167) 
  Cairo-Dock has crashed (sig 11).
It will be restarted now.
Feel free to report this bug on glx-dock.org to help improving the dock!
info on the system :
Linux pcserver.pcclient.org 3.0.8 #1 SMP Sun Oct 30 17:20:23 MDT 2011 i686 Intel(R) Celeron(R) CPU          550  @ 2.00GHz GenuineIntel GNU/Linux
The applet 'Folders' may be the culpritrestarting with 'cairo-dock -c -x "Folders" -w 2 -q 2'...

 ============================================================================
   Cairo-Dock version: 2.4.0~1
   Compiled date:  Sep 28 2011 16:12:50
   Running with OpenGL: 0
 ============================================================================

/usr/share/themes/Caramello/gtk-2.0/gtkrc:79: Murrine configuration option "gradients" is no longer supported and will be ignored.
Binding '<Control>F3' failed!
warning :  (/home/benreilly/build/cairo-dock/2.4.0~1/tmp/cairo-dock-2.4.0~1/src/gldit/cairo-dock-keybinder.c:cd_keybinder_bind:311) 
  Couldn't bind <Control>F3
 This shortkey is probably already used by another applet or another application
warning :  (/home/benreilly/build/cairo-dock/2.4.0~1/tmp/cairo-dock-2.4.0~1/src/gldit/cairo-dock-launcher-manager.c:cairo_dock_launch_command_sync:480) 
  which: no rhythmbox-client in (/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/bin:/sbin:/usr/sbin:/opt/bin:/usr/X11/bin:/usr/local/games:/usr/games:/usr/lib/java/bin:/opt/kde3/lib/qt3/bin:/opt/kde3/bin:/usr/lib/qt/bin)

warning :  (/home/benreilly/build/cairo-dock/2.4.0~1/tmp/cairo-dock-2.4.0~1/src/cairo-dock.c:_cairo_dock_intercept_signal:167) 
  Cairo-Dock has crashed (sig 11).
It will be restarted now.
Feel free to report this bug on glx-dock.org to help improving the dock!
info on the system :
Linux pcserver.pcclient.org 3.0.8 #1 SMP Sun Oct 30 17:20:23 MDT 2011 i686 Intel(R) Celeron(R) CPU          550  @ 2.00GHz GenuineIntel GNU/Linux
The applet 'Folders' may be the culpritrestarting with 'cairo-dock -c -x "Folders" -q 3'...

 ============================================================================
   Cairo-Dock version: 2.4.0~1
   Compiled date:  Sep 28 2011 16:12:50
   Running with OpenGL: 0
 ============================================================================

/usr/share/themes/Caramello/gtk-2.0/gtkrc:79: Murrine configuration option "gradients" is no longer supported and will be ignored.
Binding '<Control>F3' failed!
warning :  (/home/benreilly/build/cairo-dock/2.4.0~1/tmp/cairo-dock-2.4.0~1/src/gldit/cairo-dock-keybinder.c:cd_keybinder_bind:311) 
  Couldn't bind <Control>F3
 This shortkey is probably already used by another applet or another application
warning :  (/home/benreilly/build/cairo-dock/2.4.0~1/tmp/cairo-dock-2.4.0~1/src/gldit/cairo-dock-launcher-manager.c:cairo_dock_launch_command_sync:480) 
  which: no rhythmbox-client in (/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/bin:/sbin:/usr/sbin:/opt/bin:/usr/X11/bin:/usr/local/games:/usr/games:/usr/lib/java/bin:/opt/kde3/lib/qt3/bin:/opt/kde3/bin:/usr/lib/qt/bin)

warning :  (/home/benreilly/build/cairo-dock/2.4.0~1/tmp/cairo-dock-2.4.0~1/src/cairo-dock.c:_cairo_dock_intercept_signal:167) 
  Cairo-Dock has crashed (sig 11).
It will be restarted now.
Feel free to report this bug on glx-dock.org to help improving the dock!
info on the system :
Linux pcserver.pcclient.org 3.0.8 #1 SMP Sun Oct 30 17:20:23 MDT 2011 i686 Intel(R) Celeron(R) CPU          550  @ 2.00GHz GenuineIntel GNU/Linux
The applet 'Folders' may be the culpritrestarting with 'cairo-dock -c -x "Folders" -q 4'...
Sorry, Cairo-Dock has encoutered some problems, and will quit.

[M0E-lnx]

kill the stupid dock!

[fogpipe]

kill the stupid dock!

My feelings exactly Its really fun for about 10 minutes and then its just a pita.

[MarkGrieveson]

Sometimes it gets in the way, but generally it's useful.  And it looks good.  I like the dock.

[tunit]

Sometimes it gets in the way, but generally it's useful.  And it looks good.  I like the dock.

I agree, it's one of the most attractive features of VL in my opinion.

Thanks, I've created another user and moved the current user's data there and the dock works fine in that one and root. I think the trouble started when I tried to create a shortcut of File System in the dock rather than using the docks' built in File Browser one, so now I use that one instead of dragging and dropping a File Manager shortcut.