Comment 3 for bug 246556

Hi Mike, thank you for your very nice reply!

1) Running the command from the Alt+F2-run-box works just fine. So it is a timing issue.

2) Using the shell script with sleep fixes the background texture problem.

BUT: It seems like the start scripts are not run parallel, but one after the other. I cannot tell for sure, but I had the strong impression that the "sleep 10" froze the whole panel startup.
I logged out and back in several times in a row. Most of the time, AWN had timing issues, which led to wrong icons appearing on the dock. (AWN is very buggy.) One time, AWN didn't start up after all.

I decided to discontinue using AWN, which was bugging me with its bugs, anyway. (I was using the daily repo. So I should expect bugs.)
Of course this is no fix for the clock issue, though, since not only awn was affected by the "sleep".
Therefore, sleeping is no proper workaround for the Cairo-clock's texture issue.

Please let me know if I can help you more.
I am using standard compositing on Hardy, with compiz, compiz-decorator and gtk-window-decorator showing up in the process list. The video driver is nvidia-glx-new.