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malkosta

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Registered: 2008-10-05

Posts: 10

Simdock not looking right!

Oh well,
besides this is my first topic in this forum, I'm not new on Linux, neither on Arch.

The problem is the as you can see in this screenshot, I can't run Simdock properly. It aways come with this "green thing" on it. I installed from AUR package, and I don't find anyone in internet with this same problem...

I hope anyone had the same problem and figured out how to fix.

Alexandre

Ashren

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From: Denmark

Registered: 2007-06-13

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Re: Simdock not looking right!

Hmm.. The green thing looks gnome's default wallpaper. How are you setting your wall paper?

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moljac024

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From: Serbia

Registered: 2008-01-29

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Re: Simdock not looking right!

That's a gnome background down there. How are you setting your wallpaper ?
You're running gnome-settings-daemon and/or nautilus aren't you ?

Try disabling wallpaper handling for nautilus with gconf.

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molom

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From: Australia

Registered: 2008-01-21

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Re: Simdock not looking right!

Could it got to do anything with not using a composite manager or a problem with it?

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bgc1954

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From: Edmonton, AB, Canada

Registered: 2006-03-14

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Re: Simdock not looking right!

I used to use simdock as well so thought I'd fire it up again to see if I could duplicate your problem.  Sure enough, there was the square around simdock with a different background.  After a bit of googling, I found that simdock likes to use gnome settings for the background and if you're not using gnome--I'm using openbox--you have to force a background with the following:

$ simdock -b /home/user/wallpaper/picture.jpg

I just added that to my openbox autostart.sh and it works great.

Last edited by bgc1954 (2008-10-05 14:30:21)

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malkosta

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Registered: 2008-10-05

Posts: 10

Re: Simdock not looking right!

Oh, thanks very much to all!!

I googled it a loooot, and didn't find anything simular to my problem. This forum is amazing, I've never get so many answers in such a few time in any linux forum before.

Thanks too all! I solved my problem
Alexandre