Flashing, Autohide not working, lots of other problems

[imclean]

V 3.4.1
Using with :
Ubuntu 15.04
openGL
Video: Radeon HD6310
Driver: 14.201.1006.1002-140902a-175601C-ATI
Problems:
When autohide enabled, the dock either will not appear, or half (1 side, or top or bottom) appears or flickers appearing and disappearing quickly.
If the dock does appear it sometimes will not auto-hide.
The dock can only really be used reliably by minimising all windows.
When all windows are minimised the dock responds, but animations do not work.
There are lots of other small problems, eg, if the time is clicked the calandar appears, but clicking it again does not make it go away.

[Matthieu Baerts (matttbe)]

Hello and thank you for this bug report!

Is it better if you don't use the OpenGL backend?

   $ cairo-dock -c
   or: $ cairo-dock -A

What's your Window Manager? Metacity/Marco? Is it better with:

   $ cairo-dock -W

[imclean (ipxdesign)]

Hi Matthieu,
I log in using "select desktop environment" and pick Cairo-dock, does this
mean it is window manager? (Sorry I don't know so much:) )

I tried cairo-dock -c, it seemed better but looked like I have 2 docks, so
I quit out of both and ran cairo-dock -c again.
This seems to work perfectly:)

If I run cairo-dock -a, it seems to have same problems as default.

Is there someway I can default to cairo-dock -c at log on?

regards,
Ian

On Sat, May 2, 2015 at 9:39 AM, Matthieu Baerts <email address hidden> wrote:

> Hello and thank you for this bug report!
>
> Is it better if you don't use the OpenGL backend?
>
> $ cairo-dock -c
> or: $ cairo-dock -A
>
> What's your Window Manager? Metacity/Marco? Is it better with:
>
> $ cairo-dock -W
>
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>
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[Matthieu Baerts (matttbe)]

> I log in using "select desktop environment" and pick Cairo-dock, does this mean it is window manager

If you select this session, I guess your window manager is Compiz.

> I tried cairo-dock -c, it seemed better

It seems this bug is due to a regression of your video driver... Which one are you using? Proprietary one? (fglrx)

  $ glxinfo | grep OpenGL

> Is there someway I can default to cairo-dock -c at log on?

Yes, simply launch the dock with this command, check the box to remember your choice and select "No". Next time, the dock will be launched without OpenGL backend ;-)

   $ cairo-dock -A

[imclean (ipxdesign)]

Yes, I am using the fglrx driver:
vendor string: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
OpenGL renderer string: AMD Radeon HD 6310 Graphics
OpenGL core profile version string: 4.4.13374 Core Profile Context
14.201.1006.1002
OpenGL core profile shading language version string: 4.40
OpenGL core profile context flags: (none)
OpenGL core profile profile mask: core profile
OpenGL core profile extensions:
OpenGL version string: 4.4.13374 Compatibility Profile Context
14.201.1006.1002
OpenGL shading language version string: 4.40
OpenGL context flags: (none)
OpenGL profile mask: compatibility profile
OpenGL extensions:

Quote:
"Yes, simply launch the dock with this command, check the box to remember
your choice and select "No". Next time, the dock will be launched
without OpenGL backend ;-"

I cannot see any check box to remember my choice

Regards,
Ian

On Sat, May 2, 2015 at 11:29 AM, Matthieu Baerts <email address hidden> wrote:

> > I log in using "select desktop environment" and pick Cairo-dock, does
> this mean it is window manager
>
> If you select this session, I guess your window manager is Compiz.
>
> > I tried cairo-dock -c, it seemed better
>
> It seems this bug is due to a regression of your video driver... Which
> one are you using? Proprietary one? (fglrx)
>
> $ glxinfo | grep OpenGL
>
> > Is there someway I can default to cairo-dock -c at log on?
>
> Yes, simply launch the dock with this command, check the box to remember
> your choice and select "No". Next time, the dock will be launched
> without OpenGL backend ;-)
>
> $ cairo-dock -A
>
> --
> You received this bug notification because you are subscribed to the bug
> report.
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1450727
>
> Title:
> Flashing, Autohide not working, lots of other problems
>
> To manage notifications about this bug go to:
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/cairo-dock-core/+bug/1450727/+subscriptions
>

[Matthieu Baerts (matttbe)]

> I cannot see any check box to remember my choice

You should see a box on the bottom of the dialogue shown when launching this command:

    $ cairo-dock -A

Or you can also modify config files with this command:

    $ sed -e '/default backend/c\default backend=cairo' ~/.config/cairo-dock/.cairo-dock

(then relaunch the dock)