What dock application works best in Kubuntu?(Solved)

[monte48lowes]

Re: What dock application works best in Kubuntu?

I did have an error when adding Rog's ppahttps://launchpad.net/~samrog131/+archive/ppa to sources.list. On the webpage the line to be added is 'wrapped' to a second line. It should read:

echo deb [url]http://ppa.launchpad.net/samrog131/ppa/ubuntu[/url] jaunty main | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/samrog131-ppa-jaunty.list

and...

sudo apt-key adv --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv-keys 2B7E03A7

I recommend deleting line 54 (the one added earlier) from /etc/apt/sources.list and running the two lines posted above.

Mike

[cptrohn]

Re: What dock application works best in Kubuntu?

I did have an error when adding Rog's ppahttps://launchpad.net/~samrog131/+archive/ppa to sources.list. On the webpage the line to be added is 'wrapped' to a second line. It should read:

echo deb [url]http://ppa.launchpad.net/samrog131/ppa/ubuntu[/url] jaunty main | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/samrog131-ppa-jaunty.list

and...

sudo apt-key adv --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv-keys 2B7E03A7

I recommend deleting line 54 (the one added earlier) from /etc/apt/sources.list and running the two lines posted above.

Mike

Thanks for that big heads up Mike!

I might just try Cairo-dock again...

But NOW I am having trouble with it, I tried to install Cairo from the repositories from the ubuntu documentation. https://help.ubuntu.com/community/CairoDock#From%20a%20.deb%20Package%20(Stable)

So I changed the command

gksudo gedit

in the first line to

kdesudo kate

and then added the 2nd line to the sources list as stated... then of course the wget line listed there as well... (I just followed the instructions they listed for installing from the repositories via command line only changing what I listed above)

SOOO after it installed I went to utilities to try and run it and it wasn't listed there (as it was when installing it from the kpackagekit) so in a terminal I typed in cairo-dock and it starts up, it just only runs with the terminal open and I can't change the themes....

LOL..... I think I have probably done EVERYTHING wrong you possibly can trying to get a dock installed in kubuntu..

Do you guys think there is something else I should have changed via command line to get it running properly in kubuntu? Does Kubuntu use wget or does it use another command that I have completely screwed up on as well? LOL

Sometimes you just have to laugh at yourself!

[kubicle]

Re: What dock application works best in Kubuntu?

so in a terminal I typed in cairo-dock and it starts up, it just only runs with the terminal open

That is normal, if you run apps from a terminal, they will end if the "parent" terminal is closed. To avoid this, either use '&' to detach the process from the terminal:

cairo-dock &

or simply use krunner (Alt+F2)

SOOO after it installed I went to utilities to try and run it and it wasn't listed there (as it was when installing it from the kpackagekit)

Did you install from the same repositories (same package) with kpackagekit? Relogging to KDE may show the icon, but if it doesn't, you can create a menu item for it with kmenuedit.

[cptrohn]

Re: What dock application works best in Kubuntu?

OK, I have cairo-dock running great now...

Thank you so much to everybody that took the time to help me out! It is very much appreciated!!