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.
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