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FVANtom with staffMy name is Tom Vergult (a.k.a. FVANtom). I live in Belgium, near Brussels. My big ambition is to create a successful game development studio that is able to bring a more meaningful experience to gaming in general.

 

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Cairo Dock

Cairo Dock transparency without Compiz

While looking for a solution to make the user experience of my Ubuntu better I've stumbled upon 'Cairo Dock', A neat little mac style 'Icon Dock'. I wasn't running Compiz at the time because it seems to make my machine slower and cause a number of other problems while trying to play HD video etc.

This command has helped me to fix the Cairo dock transparency while keeping Compiz turned off:

gconftool-2 -s -t bool /apps/metacity/general/compositing_manager true