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abhinavd

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Registered: 2014-06-09

Posts: 5

[SOLVED] LXDE: Cairo-dock dialogues show white box with no text

Hello!
I am using LXDE + Openbox + Cairo-dock. Compton is installed and enabled in ~/.config/lxsession/LXDE/autostart.
When I click on an applet like 'Drop to Share' or the Power indicator, or when my mouse hovers on a particular menu in the advanced mode of the Cairo-Dock configuration, instead of seeing some information, I see a white/gray box without the text inside as shown in this screenshot:
Screenshot

This behaviour does not change when settings in Cairo are changed. The problem disappears with an XFCE session. I then tried an LXDE + xfwm session instead of openbox, and noticed the same problem again.

Does anyone have suggestions for this? This is the only irritant that is preventing me from using Cairo.

Last edited by abhinavd (2014-06-09 15:41:26)

abhinavd

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Registered: 2014-06-09

Posts: 5

Re: [SOLVED] LXDE: Cairo-dock dialogues show white box with no text

The problem seems to have been solved, I don't exactly know how.
I think it stemmed from me rebooting the computer after making all those changes, because before running into this problem I was trying out various things- changing window managers and trying out different DE's and dock applications. A reboot with the current configuration (LXDE + Openbox + Cairo) is working perfectly now.