I'm part of the Cairo-Dock Team.
We confirm this bug. There was the same problem with Intel graphic cards but all seems ok now (Ubuntu Karmic - 13 Aug 2009) (even with an Eeepc701 while having multiple visual effects and remains fluid!).
We think that this black background with ATI cards is due to this function 'GL_EXT_texture_from_pixmap' in OpenGL. We suppose that the composite support needs to be improved.
I don't know how can we help you but we can try to answer to all your questions !
The problem is the same with Catalyst 9.7 (black background and some artifacts in indirect rendering mode)
You can also test with an the indirect rendering mode :
$ cairo-dock -o -i
Thanks to mac_v for having reported this bug. And thanks to Bryce for having confirmed it !
Hello,
I'm part of the Cairo-Dock Team.
We confirm this bug. There was the same problem with Intel graphic cards but all seems ok now (Ubuntu Karmic - 13 Aug 2009) (even with an Eeepc701 while having multiple visual effects and remains fluid!).
We think that this black background with ATI cards is due to this function 'GL_EXT_ texture_ from_pixmap' in OpenGL. We suppose that the composite support needs to be improved.
I don't know how can we help you but we can try to answer to all your questions !
The problem is the same with Catalyst 9.7 (black background and some artifacts in indirect rendering mode)
You can also test with an the indirect rendering mode :
$ cairo-dock -o -i
Thanks to mac_v for having reported this bug. And thanks to Bryce for having confirmed it !
PS : Our ppa is now activated : https:/ /edge.launchpad .net/~cairo- dock-team/ +archive/ ppa developer. berlios. de/project/ showfiles. php?group_ id=8724 or on lp : https:/ /launchpad. net/cairo- dock-core/ +download and https:/ /launchpad. net/cairo- dock-plug- ins/+download or via SVN (svn:// svn.berlios. de/cairo- dock/trunk) but this development branch is transfering from svn to bzr in lp.
You can download sources code on Berlios http://