Cairo-Dock, a fast and customizable desktop interface which can be used as alternative or addition to Unity, Gnome-Shell, Xfce-panel, and KDE-panel, is now at version 3.1.
Highlights Cairo-Dock 3.1:
• Unity integration was improved and several indicators have been added (Sync-Menu, Print-Menu, and the latest Messaging-Menu);
• The Launcher API is now supported;
• The progress-bars
How To Use Glx-Dock/Cairo-Dock On Ubuntu 12.04
Glx-Dock/Cairo-Dock is an interactive dock (like the one you know
from a Mac) that provides easy access to some of the files, folders,
and applications on your computer, and more. You can use it with
OpenGL (to use your graphics card) or without, and it is compatible with
Compiz, but it can also run without a composite manager.
okay guys with all the fuse about unity being this and that blah blah of which I find it cruel as unity is great. so at this point I decided to use Cairo dock as a DE just to give myself an alternative...
Cairo-Dock is a unified dock-like interface for your desktop. Besides a cool dock, it provides a taskbar, and many applets that can be placed either inside the dock or on your desktop, at your convenience ! It is highly customizable and comes with a lot of ready-to-use themes.
PPA
This PPA will install cairo dock in your Ubuntu desktops (yes !
The new version (3.0) of Cairo Dock - an animated application launcher for Linux that can be run in Gnome, KDE and Xcffe - has recently been released with many changes, improvements and bug fixes. The most important change in this release is that Cairo Dock now use GTK3 for a better integration in a Gnome desktop. Other prominent enhancements are:
The taskbar has been greatly enhanced.
I recently installed cairo dock, and I love it. However, I miss my universal dock. Is there anyway I can get the Universal dock and cairo dock without the pesky unity dock on the side? I would prefer to keep the interface that opens with the windows key, but that seems to rely on the unity dock, and is optional.
tl;dr I want the Universal dock and the cairo dock without the unity dock
Cairo-Dock is an very popular animated application launch bar in Ubuntu,comparable to the dock in Mac OS X or Rocket Dock.Unfortunately the Cairo-Dock’s domain has changed,the new website is glx-dock.org.
Cairo-Dock, a fast and customizable desktop interface which can be used as alternative or addition to Unity, Gnome-Shell, Xfce-panel, and KDE-panel, is now at version 3.2.0.Unlike the previous version which was only a maintenance update, the new release comes with a wealth of new features and changes.Highlights of Cairo-Dock 3.2:• Multi-screen support has been improved;• A couple of new
fter 3 months of hard work, the new version of GLX-Dock/Cairo-Dock ('.1.3) is out. The new version brings a lot of fixes for some existing problems such as smoother auto-hide, automatic detection of indirect rendering for Intel/ATI cards, but the most visible change in Cairo Dock v'.1.3 is the new c ...
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