Cairo-dock script problem

Been trying to get opensuse 11.1 all set this week and been having a number of problems. Currently working on appearance. Onto cairo dock. I downloaded through YaST and tired to set it up.

TERMINAL
–>su…
#->cairo-dock

app window opens and i choose theme. window closes but immediately reopens. terminal displays:

uncompressing theme Aero …

gzip: stdin: unexpected end of file
tar: Child returned status 1
tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors
warning : (cairo-dock-themes-manager.c:cairo_dock_manage_themes:476)
Attention : directory /tmp/cairo-dock-net-theme.bW3Pro-data is empty or unreadable

no idea how to get around this and the only way to kill the script is to relog. any help would be awesome.

Don’t launch this app as root. You should be able to configure as regular user.

Starting with installed cairo packages - what is output of

rpm -qa |grep cairo

I have (for reference):

linux:/home/dean # rpm -qa |grep cairo
cairo-dock-themes-1.6.3.1-1.pm.20081207
python-cairo-1.4.12-19.1
cairo-1.4.14-32.1
cairo-dock-1.6.3.1-0.pm.20081207
cairo-dock-clock-1.6.3.1-3.pm.20081207
cairomm-1.4.8-16.1

You package versions may differ if using 11.1, but names still apply.

–>rpm -qa |grep cairo
cairo-debugsource-1.8.6-3.1
cairo-doc-1.8.6-3.1
cairo-devel-1.8.6-3.1
gtkcairo-0.3-1.pm.1
gtkcairo-debuginfo-0.3-1.pm.1
clutter-cairo-debuginfo-0.8.2-4.1
python-cairo-debugsource-1.8.4-2.1
clutter-cairo-debugsource-0.8.2-4.1
gtkcairo-debugsource-0.3-1.pm.1
cairomm-devel-1.8.0-2.1
cairo-dock-1.6.3.1-0.pm.20081207
python-cairo-debuginfo-1.8.4-2.1
cairomm-doc-1.8.0-2.1
libclutter-cairo-0_8-0-0.8.2-4.1
cairomm-debugsource-1.8.0-2.1
clutter-cairo-devel-0.8.2-4.1
cairo-dock-themes-1.6.3.1-1.pm.20081207
cairomm-1.8.0-2.1
gtkcairo-devel-0.3-1.pm.1
cairo-1.8.6-3.1
python-cairo-1.8.4-2.1
cairo-debuginfo-1.8.6-3.1
cairomm-debuginfo-1.8.0-2.1
python-cairo-devel-1.8.4-2.1

is what i get. running cairo-dock not as root does the same thing. just keeps reopening.

Ignore the last one, its just for C++ development. :slight_smile:

What happens when you try another theme? I can’t replicate your problem…