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I am not really a fan of eye-candy stuff, but this one is really great. If I am still using GNOME, I wouldn't need any GNOME panels and default applets. With cairo-dock, it already contains all those things with beautiful images.

Here is a quick video clip, I didn't take much time to customize the dock, but it should be enough to show you how neat it is.


cairo-dock provides applet, program launcher, window list, a system tray, program menu, etc. It works well with Fusion and GNOME. Lots of fine settings that you can tune, background color, images, timing, sizing, font, etc.

If you take some time to adjust it, you should be able to satisify with it and to have a pretty clean desktop in GNOME.

Note: If you mess up settings, you can delete ~/.config/cairo-dock and start over again.
Note2: If you are using Fedora 10, you can install by running yum install cairo-dock{,-plug-ins,-themes} as root.

I have switched to Enlightment 0.16 for weeks, it has been my primary desktop environment. Earlier, I tried to use Compiz with Fusion Icon, but didn't get it worked. Therefore, I switched back to GNOME, same result.

After upgrading to 0.8.3 from 0.7.8 using Fusion repo (greatly thank leigh123@linux), I haven't run Compiz once. It didn't work anymore, I searched for answers on forum and I got the resolution in this page.

The error message I got is as follows when I tried to switch to Compiz window manager:

* Setting window manager to Compiz
 ... executing: compiz --replace --sm-disable --ignore-desktop-hints ccp --indirect-rendering
compiz (core) - Fatal: Root visual is not a double buffered GL visual
compiz (core) - Error: Failed to manage screen: 0
compiz (core) - Fatal: No manageable screens found on display :0.0

What I saw is windows without window decoration.

My xorg.conf has

Section "Device"
    Identifier  "aticonfig-Device[0]-0"
    Driver      "fglrx"
    BusID       "PCI:1:0:0"
    Option      "OpenGLOverlay" "off"
    Option      "VideoOverlay" "on"
EndSection

The OpenGLOverlay has already turned off but I don't have the following settings

Section "Files"
    ModulePath "/usr/lib64/xorg/modules/extensions/fglrx"
    ModulePath "/usr/lib64/xorg/modules"
EndSection

Once I added and restart X, Compiz is back on trail.