{"id":1570,"date":"2010-11-18T09:48:30","date_gmt":"2010-11-18T16:48:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/?p=1570"},"modified":"2010-11-18T09:49:20","modified_gmt":"2010-11-18T16:49:20","slug":"the-macslow-cairo-clock-black-border-problem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/?p=1570","title":{"rendered":"The MacSlow Cairo Clock Black Border Problem"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/CairoClockProblem.png\" style=\"DISPLAY: inline; FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 8px 0px 0px; WIDTH: 299px; HEIGHT: 253px\" height=\"253\" alt=\"CairoClockProblem.png\" width=\"299\"\/>I&#8217;m slowly coming out from under something very like bronchitis, but I wanted to get this item posted because I see nothing about it online: When <a href=\"http:\/\/macslow.net\/?page_id=23\">Mac Slow&#8217;s excellent Cairo Clock<\/a> is installed under Ubuntu with all the desktop defaults, it does not overlay itself on the background correctly. (See screen shot at left.) This was initially a head scratcher for me, because the very same version of Cairo Clock (0.3.4) works perfectly under Ubuntu 10.4.<\/p>\n<p>What I didn&#8217;t realize is that in the process of tweaking Lucid Lynx this spring (before I installed Cairo Clock) I changed the Visual Effects option from None to Normal. The clock requires something in the GNOME desktop visual effects mechanism, and when I changed Visual Effects to Normal instead of None, it worked as expected, clipping to the clock face with a nice transparent drop shadow.<\/p>\n<p>The option is in the System | Preferences | Appearance dialog, under the Visual Effects tab.<\/p>\n<p>Nothing more than that, and not a big deal. I&#8217;m posting it in case some other Ubuntu noob has the same problem and can&#8217;t figure it out. If I can save some poor guy an hour and some hair this easily, I will.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m slowly coming out from under something very like bronchitis, but I wanted to get this item posted because I see nothing about it online: When Mac Slow&#8217;s excellent Cairo Clock is installed under Ubuntu with all the desktop defaults, it does not overlay itself on the background correctly. (See screen shot at left.) This [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[59,14],"class_list":["post-1570","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tutorials","tag-linux","tag-software"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1570","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1570"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1570\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1571,"href":"https:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1570\/revisions\/1571"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}