Cairo-dock with Glitz enabled

[wahcordian]

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Hello,

I'm running Slackware 12 (it may be 12.1, but I'm not sure how to check), kernel 2.6.26, 1GB DDR, dual core 1.33ghz intel.

I have glitz enabled in cairo, I compiled cairo-dock1.6.2.3 with glitz enabled, but when I run 'cairo-dock -g' It doesn't use glitz. From what I hear, cairo runs much better with glitz, right now it's choppy and sluggish as heck.

Here's a sample of ./configure before I run 'make' and 'make install'

root@darkstar:/home/wahcordian/installs/cairo-dock-1.6.2.3# ./configure --enable-glitz | grep GLITZ
checking for GLITZ... yes
config.status: WARNING:  cairo-dock.pc.in seems to ignore the --datarootdir setting

Here's what it says when I run cairo-dock.

wahcordian@darkstar:~$ cairo-dock -g
warning :  (cairo-dock.c:main:432)
  Attention : Cairo-Dock was not compiled with glitz
stack : reperoire local : /home/wahcordian/.cairo-dock/stack

anything else I can do or check to get this to work correctly?
Is that config.status warning a clue I should look at?

Thanks,
Wahcordian

[fabounet]

see on the cairo-dock.org forum, there is a thread discussing about it.
you'll need to install the latest glitz 0.5.7 version, and compile libcairo with --glitz-enabled
Then, launch it with cairo-dock -g, and it will use OpenGL, reducing your CPU down to a few %

[wahcordian]

I downloaded glitz 0.5.7 and it installed correctly, recompiled cairo (1.4.14), and then recompiled cairo-dock... same thing happened. So I upgraded to cairo-1.8.0. Was getting errors on configure script that I didn't have pixman-1 >= 0.12.

I have since downloaded and installed pixman-1 0.96.0, but cairo-1.8.0 config script can't seem to find it.

checking whether cairo's image surface backend feature could be enabled... no (requires pixman-1 >= 0.12.0 http://cairographics.org/releases/)
configure: error: mandatory image surface backend feature could not be enabled

however package config seems to have little trouble finding it:

root@darkstar:/home/wahcordian/installs/cairo-1.8.0# pkg-config --modversion pixman-1
0.9.6

Is there something else I should be looking at?

[wahcordian]

hahaha something is not right here, I just realized after my post that 9.6 is less than 12... I thought I had version .96 :P

[wahcordian]

Alright, I have successfully installed cairo v 1.80 w/ glitz enabled using pixman-1 0.12.0. recompiled / installed cairo-dock, but it still insists what it was not compiled w/ glitz enabled.

This isn't making any sense.

[fabounet]

did you use the --enable-glitz option for both libcairo and cairo-dock ?
also, did you check it really found and used glitz (check the configure output)

[wahcordian]

Is this useful?
Configuring cairo-1.8.0

root@darkstar:/home/wahcordian/installs/cairo-1.8.0# ./configure --enable-glitz > out
root@darkstar:/home/wahcordian/installs/cairo-1.8.0# cat out | grep glitz
checking for cairo's glitz surface backend feature...
checking for glitz... yes
checking whether cairo's glitz surface backend feature could be enabled... yes
config.status: creating src/cairo-glitz.pc
config.status: creating cairo-glitz-uninstalled.pc
  glitz:         yes
--- The glitz surface backend feature is still under active development and
--- and incompatible changes may yet be made to glitz surface backend
root@darkstar:/home/wahcordian/installs/cairo-1.8.0# cat out | grep GLITZ
checking for GLITZ_AGL... no
checking for GLITZ_EGL... no
checking for GLITZ_GLX... yes
checking for GLITZ_WGL... no
root@darkstar:/home/wahcordian/installs/cairo-1.8.0#

configuring cairo-dock

root@darkstar:/home/wahcordian/installs/cairo-dock-1.6.2.3# ./configure --enable-glitz > out
config.status: WARNING:  cairo-dock.pc.in seems to ignore the --datarootdir setting
root@darkstar:/home/wahcordian/installs/cairo-dock-1.6.2.3# cat out > glitz
root@darkstar:/home/wahcordian/installs/cairo-dock-1.6.2.3# cat out > GLITZ
root@darkstar:/home/wahcordian/installs/cairo-dock-1.6.2.3#

[wahcordian]

okay, it seems to work now. Because I'm installing cairo, glitz, pixman-1, and cairo-dock from source, not slackbuilds, I needed to run removepkg as root on cairo. then rebuild, and copy libcairo.la and libcairo.so into the proper directories according to the build errors in cairo-dock: /usr/lib/.lib/

I have a cairo-dock startup script in my ~/user/Autostart/ directory which seems to work fine, whats strange, however, is that when I try to start an instance of cairo-dock in a console, I get no errors, but all the icons leave a 'trail', they aren't being drawn over between frames of animation. Also, the cairo-l theme runs super slow like it did before, but the rest are noticeably faster.

Thanks again for nutdging me in the right direction!

[wahcordian]

I looked at my ~/.kde/Autostart/cairo-dock.sh script and it didn't have the glitz argument. I fixed this and now, what I'm calling the 'redraw' error, is persisting on startup as well. Attached is a screen shot of what I'm talking about.

[fabounet]

there is a patch to apply to libcairo, did you do it too ?