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[Soos Gergely <sogerc1@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

All right so it indeed may be a driver problem, because with the -c parameter the flashes no longer appear.
Unfortunately I still need assistance because:
1) I played around with amdcccle but no setting resolved my issue. Not that there are many options... And I can't think of any other way to influence the opengl library.
2) The cairo backend is not so smooth with the animations. And I think I found another bug:
If I set the "animation frequency for the cairo backend" to 15 then the animation becomes pretty good, but the problem is that if I make a change in the settings or after restart/startup the animation becomes jerky. I have to change it to 50, show and then hide the dock then change it back to 15 and it becomes pretty good again.
Or I can go another way, I can set it to 50 and restart cairo dock and then the animations are pretty good until I change some options (so I have to restart cairo dock after every settings change).
I don't know... maybe this animation frequency is not calculated or applied correctly in cairo dock...

Anyway I would still prefer the opengl backend if there was a way to get
rid of the flashes.

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Title:
  violent flashes when the main dock appears/diappears

Status in Cairo-Dock : Core:
  New

Bug description:
  My main dock visibility is set to hide when it overlaps any windows. Whenever the dock appears or disappears it flashes (or blinks) violently, or to describe it another way, it disappears for a fraction of a second several times during the animation.
  This flashes are so violent they hurt my eyes and these disappearances seem to occur more when the mouse is inside the main dock's area.
  My favorite animation would be the "zoom out", unfortunately it is one of the most violent ones, the less violent is the "move down" (but this may be just my perception, because the "move down" is a strange animation).

  My system is:
  Ubuntu 12.04 LTS
  fglrx 8.960 (can't install a newer version, because fglrx>=9 does not support my Radeon HD 4570)
  KDE 4.8.5
  cairo-dock 3.2.0 (from ppa: http://ppa.launchpad.net/cairo-dock-team/ppa/ubuntu precise main)
  compiz 0.9.7.8 (replacing kwin, but the flashes also appear with kwin with or without compositioning (or desktop effects as they call it))

  Also, I have a dualhead xorg setup, but that one is also not to blame,
  because if I start my laptop without an external monitor the flashes
  still appear.

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