Since the version bump, kooldock loads only erratically. It is always present as a process but the UI does not show up. Dinstinction: 1. Loading on KDE startup (default): maybe once out of 20 times, the UI will show. The rest of the time, never. 2. Manually starting it: first, kill it. Then start again from a shell. Result: maybe once out of 5 times, the UI will show. I cannot find a pattern here - the number of tries I need to get it working seem to vary. I also don't know if and to which location kooldock writes a log. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. emerge and wait if it loads with KDE next time, ps auxwww and grep for it 2. from a user shell, kill the process 3. load it again (no parameters) Actual Results: see above Expected Results: Show the dock UI Configuration is a KDE 3.5.5, built from startkde package. No panel or dock replacements other than kooldock. Seems not to be related to other software running (cannot find pattern). Running on free Radeon driver (M9, Radeon Mobility 9000), DRI enabled.
I'm using kooldock only occasionally, but it always shows up properly... Please paste your emerge --info output. ps. have you tried to clean kooldock configuration and begin new session?
As for the configuration: I tried deleting the kooldockrc to feign a first start. This produced something: at first, the dock would not show up, but when I switched the desktop, it suddenly did. When I switch back, it then works on the original desktop as well. I can reproduce this. I also get this on the console when I start it manually: ralph@localhost ~/.kde3.5/share/config $ X Error: BadWindow (invalid Window parameter) 3 Major opcode: 20 Minor opcode: 0 Resource id: 0x1c00ab2 As well as this, when I change a setting in the menu: QImage::smoothScale: Image is a null image Ok. Here's what emerge --info says: Portage 2.1.1-r2 (default-linux/x86/2006.1, gcc-4.1.1, glibc-2.4-r4, 2.6.18-gentoo-r6 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.18-gentoo-r6 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) M processor 1300MHz Gentoo Base System version 1.12.6 Last Sync: Thu, 25 Jan 2007 09:20:01 +0000 app-admin/eselect-compiler: [Not Present] dev-java/java-config: 1.3.7, 2.0.31 dev-lang/python: 2.4.3-r4 dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r5 dev-util/ccache: [Not Present] dev-util/confcache: [Not Present] sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.17 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.61 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2, 1.10 sys-devel/binutils: 2.16.1-r3 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.3.14 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.22 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.17-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O2 -march=i686 -pipe" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/share/X11/xkb /usr/share/config" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/gconf /etc/java-config/vms/ /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/web2c" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=i686 -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoconfig distlocks metadata-transfer sandbox sfperms strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://ftp-stud.fht-esslingen.de/pub/Mirrors/gentoo/ " LINGUAS="de en" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --delete-after --stats --timeout=180 --exclude='/distfiles' --exclude='/local' --exclude='/packages'" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.europe.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="x86 X aac acpi alsa alsa_cards_ali5451 alsa_cards_als4000 alsa_cards_atiixp alsa_cards_atiixp-modem alsa_cards_bt87x alsa_cards_ca0106 alsa_cards_cmipci alsa_cards_emu10k1x alsa_cards_ens1370 alsa_cards_ens1371 alsa_cards_es1938 alsa_cards_es1968 alsa_cards_fm801 alsa_cards_hda-intel alsa_cards_intel8x0 alsa_cards_intel8x0m alsa_cards_maestro3 alsa_cards_trident alsa_cards_usb-audio alsa_cards_via82xx alsa_cards_via82xx-modem alsa_cards_ymfpci alsa_pcm_plugins_adpcm alsa_pcm_plugins_alaw alsa_pcm_plugins_asym alsa_pcm_plugins_copy alsa_pcm_plugins_dmix alsa_pcm_plugins_dshare alsa_pcm_plugins_dsnoop alsa_pcm_plugins_empty alsa_pcm_plugins_extplug alsa_pcm_plugins_file alsa_pcm_plugins_hooks alsa_pcm_plugins_iec958 alsa_pcm_plugins_ioplug alsa_pcm_plugins_ladspa alsa_pcm_plugins_lfloat alsa_pcm_plugins_linear alsa_pcm_plugins_meter alsa_pcm_plugins_mulaw alsa_pcm_plugins_multi alsa_pcm_plugins_null alsa_pcm_plugins_plug alsa_pcm_plugins_rate alsa_pcm_plugins_route alsa_pcm_plugins_share alsa_pcm_plugins_shm alsa_pcm_plugins_softvol arts asf berkdb bitmap-fonts cdr cli cracklib crypt cups dlloader dri dvd elibc_glibc exif fortran gdbm gif gpm iconv imap input_devices_keyboard input_devices_mouse ipv6 isdnlog java jpeg jpeg2k kde kernel_linux lcd_devices_bayrad lcd_devices_cfontz lcd_devices_cfontz633 lcd_devices_glk lcd_devices_hd44780 lcd_devices_lb216 lcd_devices_lcdm001 lcd_devices_mtxorb lcd_devices_ncurses lcd_devices_text libg++ linguas_de linguas_en mime mp3 ncurses nls nptl nptlonly opengl pam pcmcia pcre perl png ppds pppd python qt3 qt4 radeon readline reflection session spl ssl tcpd truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts udev unicode userland_GNU video_cards_r200 video_cards_radeon wifi win32codecs wma xorg xvid zlib" Unset: CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY
Hmm... I found that kooldock sometimes loads after 5-10 seconds (quite a long time), but this is the only thing I see here... Anyway - I've just commited kooldock's version bump into CVS. Plz try version 0.4.4 and tell us, is your problem still there. Cheers, Przemek
I have emerged 0.4.4 and after the first 2 tries the problem seems to be gone. I hope it stays that way. ;) Whatever you did, good work! As for 0.4.3, in the end my workaround was to switch to another desktop after loading KDE and and switch right back again - then the UI would show (otherwise it would not).
Good to hear :) I deleted kooldock-0.4.3 from portage tree. Cheers, Przemek PS. You don't need to CC yourself, if you are a bug reporter.
