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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.
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Install Cairo Dock 3.3.1 in Ubuntu 13.10 Saucy/Ubuntu 13.04 Raring/Ubuntu 12.10 Quantal/Ubuntu 12.04 Precise/10.04 Lucid/11.10/11.04/10.10/Linux Mint 16/15/14/13/12/11/10/9/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.
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Core:
  • 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
  • Default themes: added a few default apps for XFCE
  • Dialogues:
    • 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
  • GUI: settings about images: used the image selector widget instead file selector widget
  • Docks:
    • 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
  • OpenGL:
    • 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
  • Tests: Added a test framework, and several tests
  • Theme packager: added the possibility to select another output directory and added a message if there is an error
  • Windows:
    • 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
  • Misc:

 Plug-ins:
  • 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
  • Clipper: In some cases the history was not saved before the end of the session
  • Clock:
    • Interface: Python: fixed a crash if no translation file is found for this domain
    • Installation: Python: support DESTDIR env var
  • DBus:
    • Support login1 for the 'resuming' signal
    • ICAL: Check if a task a valid before adding it
  • Drop to Share:
    • 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
  • Indicator-applet3 (Indicator-Generic):
    • 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.
  • Logout:
    • 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.
  • Mail: Added the possibility to use a specific icon for each account
  • Note-taking: improve the window to edit notes
  • Notification area: Hide the icon if there is no item (if there is nothing to display)
  • PowerManager:
    • 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)
  • Recent-event:
    • 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
  • Switcher: listen to more events to correctly update the icon when a window is moved/minimised/created/...
  • Terminal: Added a few more options: scrollback, scroll on output/keystroke, custom font
  • Weather: URL for the detailed weather has changed
  • Wifi:
    • If we don't want the quickinfo: refresh the icon too
    • Used the full path for iwconfig

Other Changes:
  • 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
  • Screensaver inhibitor: only list processes of the current user
  • Moon: fixed a few bugs:
    • 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
  • Translator: invert languages when scrolling
  • Twitter: Updating to the API 1.1
  • Deluge & KTorrent: translated torrents info message
  • GMail: reduce the number of update of the icon/quickinfo (do that only if it's needed)
  • Google: Parser: if the URL can changed: with or without '/url' (it depends of the country)
  • Transmission:
    • 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
  • Websearch:
    • 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.
  • Misc:
    • Added the possibility to translate the name of the applet
    • Fixed some compatibilities with Python 3 (some applets still need Python 2)

To install Cairo Dock in Ubuntu/Linux Mint open Terminal (Press Ctrl+Alt+T) and copy the following commands in the Terminal:
That's it
Source: glx-dock
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Install Cairo Dock 3.0.2 in Ubuntu 12.04 Precise/11.10 Oneiric/11.04 Natty/10.10 Maverick/10.04 Lucid/Linux Mint (New Release)

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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.

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cairo dock 3.0

What's New in Cairo Dock 3.0.2?
Core:
  • Main GUI: Fixed a crash when hovering group buttons too quickly
  • Main GUI: The dialog and preview didn't appear when hovering the button
  • Accelerators: On recent distro, 'Control' key is now called 'Primary'
  • Icon Mgr: Added a mutex because of occasional crashes with gtk_icon_theme_lookup_icon
  • Icon Mgr: Don't call a 'change-icon' callback when clicking or scrolling on an icon, and trigger an unneeded animation on the icon
  • Dock Mgr: Avoid emitting an 'enter' event when not needed
  • Class Mgr: Fixed 2 typos (special case for kdesu and not kdes)
  • Class Mgr: Remove launching options (%U) in quick-list Exec command
  • Dialogues: Prevent closing the dialog unexpectedly when clicking on it, if the click is actually inside the interactive widget
  • Background: When set to 'always visible', applets' background couldn't be turned off
  • Added a workaround for the Unity-panel which has a wrong window type
  • Po: Updated translations: thanks to all contributors

Plug-ins:
  • AlsaMixer: Fix: double-clicking did nothing if we didn't open the menu of the applet
  • DND2Share: Pastebin: Their public API is no longer available -> ported to the new API
  • GMenu: Fixed a bug that made sub-menus be too small, and therefore have to be scrolled + code cleaning
  • Logout: When the menu is reversed (top dock), select the last item so that it's the same as the normal menu (ie, the 'shutdown' item)
  • MusicPlayer: Prevented a warning message: when changing song, we don't receive this value: Position => no need to display a warning message each time
  • MusicPlayer: Allow recently played files in the menu (Recent-Files)
  • MusicPlayer: Fixed a bug that prevented the player from being launched the 2nd time in some cases
  • MusicPlayer: Added raise and quit methods in the menu when the player is in the systray (without that it's hard to display the window
  • MusicPlayer: Used toggle buttons for Shuffle and Repeat properties
  • Recent-Events: If the file doesn't exist, don't display it in the 'Recent Files' menu
  • Recent-Events: Prevent doubles in the menu list
  • Po: Updated translations: thanks to all contributors (added Croatian)
  • Shortcuts: Fixed a small bug with bookmarks (extra new lines were disrupting Thunar)
  • Status-Notifier: Added the marshaller for the XAyatanaNewLabel signal
  • Systray (old): Force the icons size to 24px, to avoid buggy programs to display their icon with a wrong size
  • Third-party applets: Reposition their right-click menu, so that it's the same as a normal menu (on top of the icon and no scroll needed)
  • Fix 3.0.1 regression: GMenu, Switcher, Quick-Browser and Terminal: CAIRO_DOCK_FORCE_ICON_IN_MENUS was not defined in plug-ins (these applets didn't contain any icons except if 'menus-have-icons' [gd]conf key was enabled)

To Install Cairo Dock in Ubuntu/Linux Mint (Press Ctrl+Alt+T) and copy the following commands in the Terminal:
That's it
Source: glx-dock.org
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Install Cairo Dock 3.0.1 on Ubuntu 12.04 Precise/11.10 Oneiric/11.04 Natty/10.10 Maverick/10.04 Lucid/Linux Mint (New Release)

cairo dock

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

cairo dock 3.0

What's New in Cairo Dock 3.0.1?
  • Dock’s menu: fixed 2 annoying bugs with the menus: don’t hide if the dock is raised and don’t try to check if the mouse has left the dock if the menu is raised
  • Dialogues: fixed a bug where the dock could auto-hide when a modal dialogue was raised
  • Fixed a compilation error on Gentoo
  • Added a compilation option to not force the display of icons in menus
  • Dialogue: fixed a crash with gcc-4.7: the local variable (const gchar **) can be corrupted due to optimisations
  • Fixed a bug where the dock didn’t accept clicks when the mouse touches the screen edge (with auto-hide)
  • Fixed a bug where the hidden dock background colour was not updated properly
  • Class-Manager: fixed a bug with Windows applications whose name is in upper case (.EXE)
  • GUI: use cairo_dock_get_xwindow_class() to link a program with a launcher
  • French translations: fixed 2 small errors
Plug-ins:
  • Gnome-integration: fixed the time&date command
  • KDE integration: fixed the time&date command
  • Updated previews of dustbin and logout
  • Updated the version of applets that can be always visible (for the new parameters)
  • Clock: numeric view: increased the size of the rectangle if an outline is used
  • + modified the default colour
  • Clock: Added the possibility to have an outline
  • Use the core option to not force the display of icons in menus
  • Minor fixes in Sound Control’s .conf file
  • MusicPlayer: mpris2: metadata: trackid attribute should be of D-Bus type ‘o’
  • Switcher: fixed a possible crash (division by 0) if the X manager couldn’t get info from X + removed bMenuVisible
  • Clock: numeric mode: fixed a bug where the date was not displayed correctly (with OpenGL)
  • Clock: numeric mode: set a minimum size for the text: we keep the ratio until 12px
  • Logout: added a fallback method to get the users list if the accounts daemon service is not running
  • CMakeLists.txt: fixed a CMake warning (or error?)

To Install Cairo Dock 3.0 on Ubuntu/Linux Mint (Press Ctrl+Alt+T) and copy the following commands in the Terminal:
That's it
Source: glx-dock.org
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Install Cairo Dock 3.0 on Ubuntu 12.04 Precise/11.10 Oneiric/11.04 Natty/10.10 Maverick/10.04 Lucid/Linux Mint (New Release)

cairo dock

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.

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What's New in Cairo Dock 3.0?
  1. The taskbar has been greatly enhanced.
  2. The Log out applet has been rewritten, now allowing you to switch users.
  3. 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.
  4. The Sound Menu from Ubuntu has been integrated into the Sound-Control applet.
  5. A new Twitter applet lets you tweet in one click.
  6. A new applet to inhibit the screensaver in one click.
  7. Separators are transparent to click in 'Panel' mode.
  8. Cairo-Dock now uses GTK3, for a better integration in a Gnome desktop.
  9. Few additions to the DBus API.
  10. Text drawing (e.g. with Clock) has been improved.
  11. Icons from user icons theme are now loaded with the right size.
  12. The new default theme with a panel is now included in the core package.

To Install Cairo Dock 3.0 on Ubuntu/Linux Mint (Press Ctrl+Alt+T) and copy the following commands in the Terminal:
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First see the video of nice Theme + Compiz Effects + Dock in Ubuntu 11.04 Unity Natty Narwhal

Now i will show you how to install Theme, Dock and Compiz effects in latest Ubuntu 11.04 Natty Narwhal.

  • Now install the Orta Theme first and orta theme setting manager.

To install the theme open terminal(press Alt+F2 then type: gnome-terminal) type the following commands in the Terminal:





Now to install the Emerald decorators for orta theme:



Now install the xfwm4 decorators for theme:



You can find the Orta Settings Manager under the preferences in Menu.

If panels and menu bars are messed up, Open Orta Settings Manager go to the Fixes tab and check the following option (Select this if your menus and panel have visual glitches). This option will remove the transparency from the Menu bar applet.
  • Now install Compiz Effects
First open Ubuntu Software Center and type in search bar compiz, See the following picture
compiz ubuntu

Install the highlighted software. After complete the installation of application.

Open Synaptic Package Manager and type in Search bar compiz and install the highlighted software. 
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compiz effects

After the Complete installation of Compiz Effects, Don't close the Synaptic Package Manager.
  • Now in Synaptic Package Manager type in Search bar Cairo and see the following picture.
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Complete the installation and enjoy the New Theme.

I like personally effects in Ubuntu Classic see the following video with the same theme in Ubuntu 11.04 Classic.

If you need some help or installation from commands contact us.
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