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Dock not at bottom of screen
Posted: Fri Mar 14, 2025 12:35 am
by Iceman
Since the HW is sold out I installed Commodore OS 2 on an older HP Elite laptop I have. Love the look and retro feel but the one thing that is not working is the dock it ends up tiny on the top half of the screen, it is not clickable and does not animate when I hover over it but I can see the icons changing as apps are launched. See attached screenshot. Any way to reconfigure that?
Re: Dock not at bottom of screen
Posted: Fri Mar 14, 2025 3:47 am
by LeoNigro
Woah, I hope it doesn't do that by default.
Can you right click on the dock?
There should be an option to Configure Cairo Dock.
Even configuring an icon will launch the settings manager.
Don't play around too much in there, especially with themes, or you'll not find your way back. I promise you I picked the best theme.
If you can't get to the settings because the Configure option doesn't come up....it probably means Cairo is in locked mode.
Launch a terminal and launch the system monitor.
Kill cairo-dock in the System Monitor.
Relaunch the dock via the terminal with the command....
cairo-dock.
It should then be unlocked.
I lock it by default in COS3 to stop accidental reconfigurations like this, which I tend to perform.
Actually Cairo Dock is super buggy in COS3 crashing out all the time....but I hacked it to stay working mostly.
Re: Dock not at bottom of screen
Posted: Mon Mar 17, 2025 4:58 pm
by Iceman
Hi,
thanks for the tip. I killed cairo-dock and relaunched it but I am not getting the settings dialog
right click just brings up the desktop dialog
Mike
Re: Dock not at bottom of screen
Posted: Tue Mar 18, 2025 1:08 am
by LeoNigro
Right clicking on the dock?
If you're running 4k or a similarly high res with magnification, try running at a lower res to see if the problem resolves.
Re: Dock not at bottom of screen
Posted: Tue Mar 25, 2025 6:52 pm
by Iceman
Thanks, it is the resolution.
I will tinker with that
Mike
Re: Dock not at bottom of screen
Posted: Mon Apr 14, 2025 9:40 am
by theokeist
How to dwnload OS/3 only 2 is available on sites
Re: Dock not at bottom of screen
Posted: Mon Apr 14, 2025 10:30 am
by wiisoldier
Launch date is 15/04/2025
theokeist wrote: ↑Mon Apr 14, 2025 9:40 am
How to dwnload OS/3 only 2 is available on sites
Re: Dock not at bottom of screen
Posted: Sat Apr 19, 2025 3:49 pm
by Ushgarak
LeoNigro wrote: ↑Tue Mar 18, 2025 1:08 am
Right clicking on the dock?
If you're running 4k or a similarly high res with magnification, try running at a lower res to see if the problem resolves.
Confirming on v3 beta that this happened to me as well.
The reason the user above was unable to right click on the dock is that when you run a high resolution and scale to 200%, the dock appears to be in the top middle but that's a phantom- it is actually at the top right (you can see the animation responding when moving the mouse around the top right of the screen). Hence the person above was actually just right clicking on the screen.