Cairo-Dock is an attractive, lightweight eye-candy dock to launch your applications. It has a family-likeness with the OS X dock, but with more options.
Cairo-Dock uses Cairo / OpenGL to render graphics (in correlation with Compiz) with full hardware acceleration. It is fully configurable and fully customisable and can be used as a taskbar too. It is compatible with Compiz-Fusion, Beryl, Compiz, Metacity, Kwin, Xcompmgr, etc., but it can also run without a composite manager (using fake transparency). Cairo-Dock can run under desktop environments including GNOME, KDE and Xfce.
You can easily add applets in the dock or as a desklet.
Key Features
- Multi-docks.
- Taskbar.
- Launcher.
- Themes.
- Large number of plugins are available to extend functionality including a basket, clock, weather, tray, electronic mail, Wi-Fi, audio plugins, visual effects and more.
- Turn the dock into an attractive panel.
- Highly customizable.
- Desklets can be rotated in 3D.
- Dialogs have many different window decorators.
- The Theme Manager can download new themes on the server for many applets: Clock, dustbin, Cairo-Penguin, Toons, etc.
- Keyboard shortcuts.
- Use Cairo-Dock with or without OpenGL.
Website: github.com/Cairo-Dock/cairo-dock-core
Support:
Developer: Fabrice Rey and contributors
License: GNU General Public License v3.0
Cairo-Dock is written in C. Learn C with our recommended free books and free tutorials.
Related Software
| Docks | |
|---|---|
| Latte | Based on plasma frameworks offering elegance and beauty |
| Plank Reloaded | Lightweight, customizable Linux dock |
| Crystal Dock | Cool desktop panel with parabolic zooming effect for KDE Plasma |
| tint2 | Simple and light open source taskbar |
| Simdock | Fast and customizable dockbar |
| Plank | Simple dock with basic functionality |
| Cairo-Dock | Light and eye-candy dock to launch your programs |
| xpybar | Highly extensible minimalistic dock panel |
| DDE Dock | Dock of Deepin Desktop Environment |
| KSmoothDock | Desktop panel with parabolic zooming effect for KDE Plasma 5 |
| Docky | Elegant, powerful, clean dock |
| Avant Window Navigator | Mac OS X like panel for GNOME |
Read our verdict in the software roundup.
 Explore our comprehensive directory of recommended free and open source software. Our carefully curated collection spans every major software category.This directory is part of our ongoing series of informative articles for Linux enthusiasts. It features hundreds of detailed reviews, along with open source alternatives to proprietary solutions from major corporations such as Google, Microsoft, Apple, Adobe, IBM, Cisco, Oracle, and Autodesk. You’ll also find interesting projects to try, hardware coverage, free programming books and tutorials, and much more. Know a useful open source Linux program that we haven’t covered yet? Let us know by completing this form. |