docky

[jesica]

I haven installed docky on my latop and pc and when i start it, it gives a a black screen ontop of docky

what can be wrong with that

[rivenathos]

I am thinking this may be fixed by either Metacity Compositing or Compiz. One or the other may need to be enabled. I do not currently use Docky, so I am tossing out ideas.

[jesica]

sorry i have no idea what that means

[Aging Technogeek]

Docky needs a composited desktop to run and display correctly. In Gnome, either enable Compiz by going to Menu=>Preferences=>Appearance=>Visual Effects and checking "Normal" or higher, or gor to Menu=>Preferences=>Desktop Settings and, in Windows=>Performance, check "Use Gnome Compositing"

You may also find that you get the same black outline for a few seconds when you boot Mint. Or, you could get a notification box saying that Docky requires desktop compositing to work properly. If this is too annoying, you will need to put in a delay before Docky starts.

Open Gedit and type "sleep 10 && docky" ( without the quotes). Save this to your /home folder in a file labeled ".dockysh" (again, no quotes). Right click the file and open Properties. In the Permissions section, make sure the box for "Allow executing the file as a program" is checked

Open Startup Applications (Menu=.Preferences=>Startup Applications), find the entry for Docky, click it to select it, click Edit, and change the command to read "/home/your username/.dockysh.

Now, when you boot into Mint, the desktop compositor will have time to start before Docky starts so you have no black outline at startup.

[rivenathos]

Yes, Aging Technogeek explained it in more detail.

[jesica]

thanks for the info

i also saw on ubuntu forums this fix works

but i cant get the Visual Effects tab

I use LMDE

[GeneC]

Jessica

I had the same problem but with AWN dock. I think Docky may be the same. Aging Technogeek explained it in his post. Your right LMDE doesn't have the settings in "Appearance" but he also mentioned ...

or go to Menu=>Preferences=>Desktop Settings and, in Windows=>Performance, check "Use Gnome Compositing"

That worked for me with AWN in LMDE.. I suspect it will with Docky.

Good Luck!

[jesica]

okay

sorry

it did work thanks