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.
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
I'm trying to use gnome-shell with cairo dock in ubuntu 12.04, but there is one problem, I want to have some kind of menu in cairo dock. The thing is, non of the menus I tried work in cairo dock. I tried mintmenu, gnomenu, cardapio, all of them show up in cairo dock, but then I press them, nothing happens. It just killing me. Thank you for your help.
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 !
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
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.
Hi I want to run cairo dock, and it did run at first but then I tried to install a theme it will not run now, here is the terminal output.herpy@crunchbang:~$ cairo-dock
WARNING: gnome-keyring:: couldn't connect to: /home/herpy/.cache/keyring-uCkiBl/pkcs11: No such file or directory
warning : (/build/buildd-cairo-dock_3.0.0-2-i386-YnrGPt/cairo-dock-3.0.0/src/gldit/cairo-dock-opengl.c:cairo_do
On a login screen there is:
* Cairo-Dock (GNOME+Effect)
* Cairo-Dock (GNOME+No Effect)
* Cairo-Dock (with Unity Panel)
Three option to choose.
But no matter what I choose (exclude GNOME+No Effect)
I still able to see the hidden Unity.
Is it normal? How can I turn-off the Unity?
Please guide me.
Cairo Dock – An awesome dock for Ubuntu desktops has been released. As we have already discussed in our previsou post ‘Ultimate Docks for Ubuntu‘, Cairo GLX dock is a dock manager that uses Cairo / OpenGL to render graphics (many in correlation with Compiz) with full hardware acceleration. It’s fully configurable and fully customizable and can be used as a taskbar too.
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