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I installed gnome shell and when i did the cairo dock is not opening at all it opens the maintenance mode and i can not edit the preferences i want to uninstall it and reinstall maybe it'll help ti fix it or if anyone have any idea that would help
I installed it from sofware center and i tried purge and it wasn't worked

I tried cairo-dock -ol debug and that was the output

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I installed it, on my system just to see how it works, and I removed it. This how I did it:

To completely remove Cairo dock, just press Ctrl+Alt+T on your keyboard to open Terminal. When it opens, run the command(s) below:

sudo apt-get purge cairo-dock cairo-dock-plug-ins && sudo apt-get autoremove

And to install:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:cairo-dock-team/ppa
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install cairo-dock cairo-dock-plug-ins

Also if you have Synaptic Package Manager installed, you can search for cairo-dock, and unckeck cairo-dock and cairo-dock-plug-ins.

You can go back to the USC, and remove Cairo Dock.

I just tried it on another machine, and tried the first command, install it form the USC it, and it was removed.

If it starts in maintenance mode, then do this:

Quit Cairo-Dock Remove this:

~/.config/cairo-dock/

Launch Cairo-Dock in a terminal with :

cairo-dock -o

If you have the maintenance mode again, can you launch Cairo-Dock with

cairo-dock -ol debug

and post the output

One last thing. Install synaptic package manager if you don't have it installed. You can install it by just press Ctrl+Alt+T on your keyboard to open Terminal. When it opens, run the command(s) below:

sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade
sudo apt-get install synaptic

Once installed launch it from dash, and when it opens search for Cairo

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Highlight all Cairo entries

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Right click, and choose Mark for Complete Removal

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  • it did not worked, the command purge uninstalled it but when i reinstalled it it gave me the maintenance mode May 9, 2013 at 10:30
  • I just added the info if it starts in maintenance mode.
    – Mitch
    May 9, 2013 at 17:51
  • i tried to delete that folder and it didn't worked so i just added the output, and it was too long so i cut some of it in the beginning so i can post it May 9, 2013 at 18:02
  • I fixed the post for you, and I have added more info in the answer. Take a look at it.
    – Mitch
    May 9, 2013 at 18:52

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