OK, an easier way of adding compositing and drop shadows (which won’t break keyboard shortcuts) …
(be aware this will NOT give you Win7 style window snapping … for that you’ll have to use the xfwm4 instructions above)
and when a file opens with a few lines already in it … add a single NEW line at the bottom that reads:-
@compton -cC
SAVE the file … then log off/on again (or reboot)
Thank SeZo for that
Personally, I’m going to stick with xfwn4, and figure out the Xfce4 keyboard shortcut configs … I like the rounded window corners, it’s (GUI) config options, and the window snapping.
But SeZo’s method is certainly easier, doesn’t break anything, and is possibly lighter
I followed SeZos method and it works perfectly thank you both, but you’re not off the hook yet, as I mentioned on my first post I tried using Cairo Dock on my Grand-daughters PC but it’s slow and sluggish by comparison to this PC, is there any things I can try to speed up the Cairo Dock effects or would i be wasting my time trying
EDIT Spoke too soon it did work perfectly until I tried different views, I tried parabolic and now I can’t do anything, right click no longer gets me back to the configuration window, no apps will launch and I now have this horrible dock slached across my screen I can do nothing with. I tried uninstalling and re-installing but iwhen I re-installed it defaulted back to parabolic and back to square one ,I assume there must be a config file somewhere I can edit to turn off parabolic, any ideas ?
Now fire up cairo-dock … it should be back to defaults.
If your daughters PC is struggling with cairo-dock with its default settings, I’d guess her PC just aint up to iit … have you tried the “cairo-dock (no OpenGL)” instead ?
iwhen I re-installed it defaulted back to parabolic and back to square one
Simply uninstalling something leaves the configuration files behind (so you can reinstall later with your tweaks still applied) … you need to
sudo apt-get remove --purge
or “Mark for COMPLETE Removal” (in Synaptic) to get rid of the configs too.
If your daughters PC is struggling with cairo-dock with its default settings, I'd guess her PC just aint up to iit .. have you tried the "cairo-dock (no OpenGL)" instead ?
I tried it in with no Open GL and that made a huge difference some effects are missing but that’s ok, the problem now is that I can’t get it to stop starting up with Open GL, I unchecked Cairo Dock (with Open GL) in the desktop sessions dialogue box but it still starts up with Open GL regardless and I can see nothing in the Cairo Dock configuration to change to no Open GL, this seems to be a problem with many things in Linux I’ve discovered , it just doesn’t do what it says it will do or not do whatever is the case, in spite of unchecking the box to stop Cairo Dock opening at startup it still does it and in synaptic in spite of selecting “mark for complete removal” it obviously doesn’t completely remove it, maybe it’s just me.
Sorry if this sounds like a rant but I just get frustrated when I have to come on here seeking help to do what should be simple things
Anyway can you tell me please how I can get Cairo Dock to startup with no Open GL
You guys are amazing,thank you Mark & SeZo for you help
The next question is should i mark this solved because if my memory serves me right the original post was regarding Mint 14 (which I’ve now given up on) and hasn’t really been resolved ?
