Comments on: Make your Ubuntu look kind of like Mac OS X

By: adam

adam — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 02:39:28 +0000

try this right click on the dock, click on cairo dock, click on configure, system, scroll to the bottom and check the two listed under compositions. Worked for me

By: adam

adam — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 02:25:34 +0000

David, that is not true I am running ubuntu 9.1 full version installed and I get the same thing.

By: david_steinlage

david_steinlage — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 12:36:32 +0000

@George: As a matter of fact, it is because you are running Ubuntu in a Virtual Machine. Cairo requires the Visual Effects (Compiz Fusion) to be enabled in Ubuntu for everything to look nice. I don’t know if VMWare Fusion for Mac is able to allow the usage of 3D graphics acceleration, and if it did, the next question would be whether any special intermediary drivers would have to be installed in the Virtual Machine to make it work.

By: George

George — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 02:57:55 +0000

I installed Cairo dock, but had to remove it. In spite of having the Cairo libraries all installed on Ubuntu 9.0.4., the dock background comes up as a massive sold black rectangle, not the neat transparent visual effect shown. Perhaps because I’m running Ubuntu as a virtual machine with VMWare Fusion on (Mac) OSX 10.5.8.? The rig doesn’t let me enable *any* visual effects under Preferences / Appearance. Ah well, I guess I’ll have to contend with just the “original” dock of the host OSX in solo. I’ll manage.