Suggest a dock for SL6?

[Trespasser]

Hi,
The only two people who I know are using SL6 here in this sub-forum of Wilders are Ocky and Mack_Guy. Hopefully there are others. Anyways, I need some suggestions of a dock (like cairo-dock that I use in Ubuntu) for SL6. Presently I only have a very large Desktop icon for Firefox 6 (fc12 remi). Any help will be appreciated.

On a side note, I finally found a real easy way to save updates and then use them to do installs or re-installs. If anyone is interested then let me know and I'll post how to do it. It's not as easy as AptOnCD but it's not bad.

Later...

Bob

[mack_guy911]

sorry i tried installed awn but its not working may be ocky help us to know what the cause of problem

http://www.wilderssecurity.com/showp...6&postcount=66

[Trespasser]

Thanks, Mack_Guy, for the reply. Actually, the AWN version that Ocky linked to is working for me. I would prefer a few more options than what is available but hey it's better than what I had. Maybe we can find a newer version somewhere. Think I start looking.

Thanks again. .

Later...

[Ocky]

Originally Posted by Trespasser

Thanks, Mack_Guy, for the reply. Actually, the AWN version that Ocky linked to is working for me. I would prefer a few more options than what is available but hey it's better than what I had. Maybe we can find a newer version somewhere. Think I start looking.

Thanks again. .

Later...

Hello Trespasser,

Right, let us know when you find something. I have tried to no avail
The awn applets package (from the same source) is a nightmare i.e. won't work as far as I
can see.
PS. saw in an earlier post that you have found a special method to save downloaded packages. Please tell all.

[Beavenburt]

Cairo-dock?

http://glx-dock.org/

edit: just noticed my mistake, ooops!

[Trespasser]

Here are the links to AWN 0.4.0-1, and its dependencies, that I found and they work in SL6 32bit. I've included 64bit versions as well....

ftp://ftp.pbone.net/mirror/archive.f...c12.x86_64.rpm

ftp://ftp.pbone.net/mirror/archive.f....fc12.i686.rpm

ftp://ftp.pbone.net/mirror/archive.f...c12.x86_64.rpm

ftp://ftp.pbone.net/mirror/archive.f....fc12.i686.rpm

ftp://ftp.pbone.net/mirror/archive.f...c12.x86_64.rpm

ftp://ftp.pbone.net/mirror/archive.f....fc12.i686.rpm

ftp://ftp.pbone.net/mirror/archive.f...c12.x86_64.rpm

ftp://ftp.pbone.net/mirror/archive.f....fc12.i686.rpm

Install libdesktop-agnostic, libdesktop-agnostic-bin, and python-desktop-agnostic first. Then install avant-window-navigator-0.4.0-1. The installer will want to install 3 other dependencies from sl6 repos when you try to install avant-window-navigator-0.4.0-1.

A few more options to choose from compared to 0.3.2.

Later...

[mack_guy911]

thanks Trespasser very very much i make a tutorial for future


what i did is click on your links and download them in default Downloads

cd /Downloads

[root@host Downloads]# yum install libdesktop-agnostic-0.3.90-7.fc12.x86_64.rpm

[root@localhost Downloads]# yum install libdesktop-agnostic-bin-0.3.90-7.fc12.x86_64.rpm

[root@host Downloads]# yum install python-desktop-agnostic-0.3.90-7.fc12.x86_64.rpm

[root@host Downloads]# yum install avant-window-navigator-0.4.0-1.fc12.x86_64.rpm

some more dependencies auto installed

*******************************************************************************************************************
================================================================================
Package Arch Version Repository Size
================================================================================
Installing:
avant-window-navigator x86_64 0.4.0-1.fc12 /avant-window-navigator-0.4.0-1.fc12.x86_64
3.1 M
Installing for dependencies:
bzr x86_64 2.1.1-2.el6 sl 5.3 M
python-crypto x86_64 2.0.1-22.el6 sl 157 k
python-paramiko noarch 1.7.5-2.1.el6 sl 727 k

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Special credits to Trespasser

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[mack_guy911]

one more question how can we get applet extra as well


ftp://ftp.pbone.net/mirror/archive.f...tes/12/x86_64/

awn extra Dependency


python-feedparser

gnome-python2-gtkmozembed

python-vobject

acpi

python-gdata

python-xklavier

python-inotify

python-alsaaudio

*******************************************************************************************************************

do far i get

5 out of them

gnome-python2-gtkmozembed

python-inotify

python-alsaaudio

python-gdata

acpi

*******************************************************************************************************************
still missing are

python-feedparser

python-xklavier

python-vobject

[Ocky]

Yes, many thanks Trespasser ! Can confirm works great.
I am a bit apprehensive regarding the awn extras applets. For instance, to name one dependency:-
gnome-python2-gtkmozembed-2.25.3-22.fc12.x86_64 requires gecko-libs = 1.9.1.15
That looks like an old xulrunner version.

Anyway, quite happy as is.

[Trespasser]

I have another question. What menu are you using in SL6 besides the standard Main Menu or Menu Bar? I found and got working mintmenu (fc12) but would prefer to use something else.

BTW, if you would like to install firefox 6 for el6 then you can pick it up here if you wish...

http://repos.fedorapeople.org/repos/leigh123linux/

leigh123 posts over at Scientific Linux Forum I've noticed.

Later...

[mack_guy911]

wondering if that work let me test it on live cd


http://www.if-not-true-then-false.co...dora-12-linux/


ftp://ftp.pbone.net/mirror/archive.f...tes/12/x86_64/

its does contain gnome do

[mack_guy911]

hello i successfully installed cairo dock with its plugins but i done it on live cd of centos

here download

http://download1.rpmfusion.org/free/...ing/x86_64/os/

cairo-dock-2.1.1.2-1.fc12.x86_64.rpm

cairo-dock-plug-ins-2.1.1.2-1.fc12.x86_64.rpm


for installing plugin you need

libetpan.so.13()(64bit)

http://rpm.pbone.net/index.php3/stat...86_64.rpm.html


su

# cd Downloads

# yum install cairo-dock-2.1.1.2-1.fc12.x86_64.rpm

it will install cairo dock

for cairo plugin ist install

# yum install --nogpgcheck libetpan-0.58-2.fc12.x86_64.rpm

then

# yum install cairo-dock-plug-ins-2.1.1.2-1.fc12.x86_64.rpm

if all work ok it install cairo dock

please do it at your own risk i just did it on live cd not on real SL so i cannot comment

Edit: just install cairo on SL working ok not bad but im not cairo fan or never use one so cannot comment much on it.

[mack_guy911]

sorry for 32 bit

http://download1.rpmfusion.org/free/...thing/i386/os/

http://rpm.pbone.net/index.php3/stat....i686.rpm.html

[Trespasser]

Nice, Mack_Guy! I SO much prefer cairo-dock over AWN. With this addition my SL6.1 will be almost on par with my Lucid installs.

Great find, dude.

Thanks. .

Later...

[mack_guy911]

Welcome Trespasser

just dustbin aka trash not working so i uncheck it also remove the cairo clock just testing new to cairo dock

[mack_guy911]

just downloaded mac theme

http://gnome-look.org/content/show.p...?content=72085

extract it check show hidden files in home folder

and copy paste it to home/username/ .config/cairo dock/themes

[Trespasser]

Hello,

Here are the links to cairo-dock 2.1.3.9-3 (32 and 64 bit versions) that I found...

cairo-dock...
http://mirror02.ipgn.com.au/fedora/r....fc12.i686.rpm
http://mirror02.ipgn.com.au/fedora/r...c12.x86_64.rpm

cairo-dock-core...
http://mirror02.ipgn.com.au/fedora/r....fc12.i686.rpm
http://mirror02.ipgn.com.au/fedora/r...c12.x86_64.rpm

cairo-dock-plug-ins...
http://mirror02.ipgn.com.au/fedora/r....fc12.i686.rpm
http://mirror02.ipgn.com.au/fedora/r...c12.x86_64.rpm

libetpan...
ftp://ftp.pbone.net/mirror/archive.f....fc12.i686.rpm
ftp://ftp.pbone.net/mirror/archive.f...c12.x86_64.rpm

I uninstalled the older versions before I installed the newer versions. I forgot the order in which I installed them so I guess you'll have to do some experimenting.

Enjoy.

Later...

[mack_guy911]

thanks for updating Trespasser

new ciaro dock is awesome )