Install Cairo Dock 3.0 on Ubuntu/Linux Mint (New Release)
Cairo Dock includes many plugins/applets such as: weather, clock, Messaging Menu, system monitor, keyboard indicators, custom icons, notification area, clipboard manager, and many other plugins.
- The taskbar has been greatly enhanced.
- The Log out applet has been rewritten, now allowing you to switch users.
- The control of the dock from the keyboard is now very powerful:
- many shortkeys have been added in several applets.
- you can activate a launcher by pressing a shortkey + its number.
- all shortkeys can now be managed in a single place in the configuration window.
- The Sound Menu from Ubuntu has been integrated into the Sound-Control applet.
- A new Twitter applet lets you tweet in one click.
- A new applet to inhibit the screensaver in one click.
- Separators are transparent to click in ‘Panel’ mode.
- Cairo-Dock now uses GTK3, for a better integration in a Gnome desktop.
- Few additions to the DBus API.
- Text drawing (e.g. with Clock) has been improved.
- Icons from user icons theme are now loaded with the right size.
- The new default theme with a panel is now included in the core package.
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Cairo Dock Available For All Current Ubuntu/Linux Mint Versions
Cairo-Dock, a fast and customizable desktop interface that takes the shape of docks, desklets, panel, etc, which can be used as alternative or addition to Unity, Gnome-Shell, Xfce-panel, and KDE-panel, is now at 3.4 version. It is designed to be light, fast and customizable, and is desktop-agnostic. It has a powerful DBus interface, to be controlled from a terminal or another application. Features can be added by plug-ins or applets, and applets can be written in C or in any language. Cairo-Dock has now a basic Wayland support.
Cairo-Dock sits in the centre of your desktop, allowing you to monitor and control your favorite apps: music players, chat messengers, twitter, torrents downloaders, RSS feeds, calendar/tasks, weather, mail checkers, etc, and a powerful task-bar.
Cairo Dock includes many plugins/applets such as: weather, clock, Messaging Menu, system monitor, keyboard indicators, custom icons, notification area, clipboard manager, and many other plugins.
- Menus: added the possibility to customize them
- Style: unified the style of all components of the dock
- Better integration with Compiz (e.g. when using the Cairo-Dock session) and Cinnamon
- Applications Menu and Logout applets will wait the end of an update before displaying notifications
- Various improvements for Applications Menu, Shortcuts, Status-Notifier and Terminal applets
- Start working on EGL and Wayland support
- And as always . various bug fixes and improvements!
Available for Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty/12.04 Precise/Linux Mint 17.x/13/other Ubuntu derivatives
To install Cairo Dock (Stable Version) in Ubuntu/Linux Mint open Terminal (Press Ctrl+Alt+T) and copy the following commands in the Terminal:
Cairo Dock 3.3.1 released, Install it in Ubuntu/Linux Mint/other Ubuntu derivatives
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 3.3.1.
Cairo-Dock sits in the centre of your desktop, allowing you to monitor and control your favourite apps: music players, chat messengers, twitter, torrents downloaders, RSS feeds, calendar/tasks, weather, mail checkers, etc, and a powerful taskbar.
Cairo Dock includes many plugins/applets such as: weather, clock, Messaging Menu, system monitor, keyboard indicators, custom icons, notification area, clipboard manager, and many other plugins.
- Cairo-Dock Session:
- Support Gnome Session 3.8
- When launching it for the first time and if Compiz is running, enable a staticswitcher (Alt+Tab) if no switcher is enabled
- Prevent dialogues from going out of the screen if the WM doesn’t handle this
- Close the sub-dock if a dialogue overlaps it
- Fixed a bug that made the background of the widgets inside the dialogue visible
- Fixed a bug that made a sub-dock hide itself when placed in the top left corner of the screen
- Fixed a bug that prevented sub-docks to hide in specific conditions
- Created a backend for the OpenGL interfaces (can be useful for a future support of other OpenGL interfaces)
- The Intel 4000HD is now blacklisted (except if ‘cairo-dock -o’ command is used) due to annoying bug
- Isolated a lot of functions linked to X11 (can be useful for a future support of Wayland or Mir)
- If a window has no type and is not transient (e.g. windows of xterm, lxterm, uxterm, and rxvt), keep it on the taskbar
- Renamed our launcher: ‘Cairo-Dock (no OpenGL)’ => ‘Cairo-Dock (Fallback Mode)’
- Updated the documentation of the API: http://doc.glx-dock.org and Documentation
- Updated translations
- Applications Menu:
- Added support of ezame, a new Menu Editor
- Added an option to not load settings.menu file (can be useless or it duplicates menu sections on some systems)
- Set the desktop environment to correctly exclude apps
- Interface: Python: fixed a crash if no translation file is found for this domain
- Installation: Python: support DESTDIR env var
- Support login1 for the ‘resuming’ signal
- ICAL: Check if a task a valid before adding it
- Added Imgur.com support
- Fixed imageshack.us and uppix.com support
- Improved error messages
- Added the possibility to translate some dedicated menus
- Fixed the title of the Text items in the History menu
- Added support of new Indicator Services (Indicator-NG, installed in /usr/share/unity/indicators)
- Added a workaround to draw the correct image after a short delay if the image is not yet ready.
- Lock Screen: added support of cinnamon-screensaver, all [smthg]-screensaver daemons and light-locker
- Added the possibility to switch user with a custom command
- Fixed switch user when using GDM
- Displayed a warning message if it’s not possible to reboot/shutdown.
- Better handle the case where a device is added/removed
- Capacity: used the sum and not the average of all batteries
- Label: used shorter string for the label and start with the percentage (should be better when displaying the dock in a vertical position where labels have a maximum size)
- Support both Zeitgeist-1.0 and Zeitgeist-2.0
- Dialogue: used a longer search bar (expanded and filled)
- Update the result each time a new key is pressed
- If we don’t want the quickinfo: refresh the icon too
- Used the full path for iwconfig
- Deluge: A menu entry to quit the application was missing
- Calendar:
- Used ‘cal’ if ‘ncal’ is not available
- Added a theme selector: default, faenza, custom
- Added the possibility to translate the label (days)
- When using a subdock for the next 7 days, also change the main icon
- Added the possibility to use other icons in different formats (only in the directory of the applet)
- Removed duplicated code
- Added the possibility to display the remaining time of the slowest active torrent as quick-info
- Improved torrents info dialogue
- Fixed a possible crash if Transmission has never been launched before
- Fixed Google, Flickr and Bing search.
- Removed Webshots (no longer available) and Twitter (api has changed).
- List of results now shows the search engine’s logo if is not a thumbnailable link icon.
- Added the possibility to translate the name of the applet
- Fixed some compatibilities with Python 3 (some applets still need Python 2)