docky in mint solved

[marshfarm]

i am really interested in applying docky to my Julia 10 lxde edition, i have installed it but half my screen disappears, it did note i needed to enable composting and I've followed some threads both here and on Ubuntu regarding Isadora's gnome but it doesn't seem to apply,

has anyone who has docky found the same thing? and if so where you able to resolve this ?

[Aging Technogeek]

To run Docky you need a desktop compositor. LXDE does not normally use desktop compositing. The simplest solution is to add xcompmgr from Package Manager. This is a lightweight desktop compositor that can be added to the autostart folder.

The other thing you will need to do is add a start up script for Docky. In /home, add a hidden file ".dockysh". In this file place a script reading "sleep 10 && docky". Make the file executable and add it to autostart in place of the standard Docky command. (add /home/yourusername/.dockysh to autostart). This will delay the Docky start for 10 seconds to allow xcompmgr to start and stabilize first.

[marshfarm]

short and sweet. thank you very much this forum is invaluable one day i'll know enough to return the favour