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cant boot on to Cairo dock 18.04

Asked by Henry Folorunsho

Just finshed installing ubuntu 18.04, and installed Cairo dock. On login i choose cairo dock at the setting. once i put my password to login, it restart back to login screen. i can only login to ubuntu

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#1

What is the output of:

lsb_release -a; uname -a; apt-cache policy cairo-dock

Thanks

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#2

You may want to run:

sudo apt-get install xcompmgr

As well. Make sure you have what cairo-dock needs
https://www.lifewire.com/setting-up-using-cairo-dock-4054034

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Henry Folorunsho (henryxav) said : 		#3

 lsb_release -a; uname -a; apt-cache policy cairo-dock
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu 18.04 LTS
Release: 18.04
Codename: bionic
Linux polaris 4.15.0-23-generic #25-Ubuntu SMP Wed May 23 18:02:16 UTC 2018 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
cairo-dock:
  Installed: 3.4.1-1.2
  Candidate: 3.4.1-1.2
  Version table:
 *** 3.4.1-1.2 500
        500 http://mirror.ng/ubuntu-archive bionic/universe amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#4

Does installing xcompmgr help any?

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Henry Folorunsho (henryxav) said : 		#5

Sorry did not

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#6

Can you launch Cairo Dock manually once logged in by pressing ALT+F2 and running it?

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Henry Folorunsho (henryxav) said : 		#7

Yes I can

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#8

Then add the command as a startup item and you'll win

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Henry Folorunsho (henryxav) said : 		#9

Sorry I can't run it through the command line. I thought you meant running it from dash

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Best actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#10

It's the same difference. You can report a bug as the option in LightDM is not working

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Henry Folorunsho (henryxav) said : 		#11

Solved I revert to 16.04. thank you for all the assistance