Hi guys;i have Xubuntu 12.04LTS installed with XFCE desktop with Xubuntu dock, and installed Cairo Dock and changed desktop colour to blue,
but when i reboot i loose the Cairo Dock and get back to xfcex Xubuntu dock and i have to set the Cairo Dock again and blue screen again , as you see in the pic attach. how can i keep the Cairo Dock permanently,thanks and Marry Christmas to you all.

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how did you set the background?
what did you do to make cairo dock autostart?
is everything else working ok?
have you installed to hard drive normally?
have you done anything to your system that might be relevant?

Thanks ondoho: i just typed this in terminal!


sudo add-apt-repository ppa:cairo-dock-team/ppa
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get dist-upgrade

sudo apt-get install cairo-dock cairo-dock-plug-ins

that would answer the last question, at least partly.
could you answer the first 4 questions please?

Hi, Ivtec. In conjunction with the your answering Ondoho's questions, I also notice that if you're using the commands that you mentioned to start cairo-dock, that is also part of your problem. You are installing it. The process of installing it might be installing it with the installation default.

You only have to install it once. You might consider looking for the installed application in your Launch menu and actually starting it that way rather than reinstalling it between boot ups.

Starting the application rather than reinstalling it would be a step in the needed direction to retain some of your preferred configurations.

-- L. James

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I am unwilling to assume you use that everytime but that would be your problem.

IF you reboot and cairo dock is not up all you need to do is, use the menu as suggested or, in terminal as normal user type;
and it should come right up.

If you look in your /home/<user name> directory and hit Ctrl + h your ~/.foo (hidden) files will show up. If you look in /.config you should find a directory or text file for cairo or cairo-dock. This will be where those personal configurations for cairo-dock are stored.

~/.foo files are where all users in any Linux OS are stored. Linux is meant to be a multi user OS. Thus you could have user pete that configures cairo-dock as you do and user clem that leaves it at the default settings and user betty that doesn't use cairo-dock at all. When any one of those three logged in, using their user name and password the OS would look to their personal /home/<user name> directory to see what needs to be used and how it is configured for them.

It could well be that you are reinstalling the thing. This would be your problem. My objection to that theory is that you should be getting a message telling you "cairo-dock" is installed at its latest version" or some close version of that message and then get a new prompt. This would not mess with your personal config files at all.

Therefore please answer the other, very well thought out, questions.

Thanks you guys for your help, but as usually i always go back to Xubuntu session as soon as i try this new stuff that do not work properly,i guess i keep trying new applications to find out that the Xubuntu desktop is best for my machine,i tried KDE,LXDE,gnome,thanks and have a HAPPY NEW YEAR TO YOU ALL.

Hi, Ivtec.

For your information, everything that was described by you and provided to you by the group works the exact same in all Linux distros including Xubuntu.

Happy New Year!

-- L. James

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ljames@apollo3.com
www.apollo3.com/~ljames