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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.
cairo dock

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 3.2.1 in Ubuntu 13.04 Raring/Ubuntu 12.10 Quantal/Ubuntu 12.04 Precise/11.10 Oneiric/11.04 Natty/10.10 Maverick/10.04 Lucid/Linux Mint (New Release)

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 3.2.1.
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
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 3.0

What's New in Cairo Dock 3.2?
Main Changes:
  • Multi-screen support has been improved;
  • A couple of new applets have been added, Screenshot and Indicator-Generic;
  • A new plugin called Sound-Effects has been added;
  • Gnome-Shell support has been integrated in this release;
  • GDM support has been added for user switching;
  • Systemd support has been added for the session management;
  • Support for all the Unity indicators has been implemented;
  • Countless bug-fixes and improvements have been added.
Core:
  • Dialogues:
    • Fixed a small bug with the default icon
    • Force to take the focus when the dialogue has a user widget, since some WM prevent focus steal
  • Gnome-Shell: the dash was hidden all the time
  • GUI:
    • Docks list: only list main docks and subdocks and not launchers and applications with subdocks (when there are windows with the same class and if these icons are regrouped into a subdock)
    • Menu and GUI: Move to another dock: if it's a container: Do not add subdocks that are contained in this container (to avoid loop: subdock1->subdock2->subdock1)
    • Simple: Plugins: 'Help' applet was not listed
    • Simple: Config: force to display the config widget (the config panel was empty with some older versions of GTK)
  • Help applet: This applet didn't have any preview icon file
  • Icon:
    • Label: If we don't want to show label, keep info about the font: it can be used by other applets (e.g. Clock)
    • Windows thumbnails: fixed a small bug that made the thumbnail unavailable the first time the window is minimized
  • Init & Themes:
    • Deactivate the option 'Show Windows Thumbnail' in the current theme.
    • This option can provoke annoying bugs with other applications the desktop (e.g. Gedit or Nautilus displayed corrupted icons when using a smooth scroll)
    • It seems this bug is due to the video drivers and it's fixed with the latest stable version of these drivers (but which is not available with most distributions)
    • Note: It's still possible to re-enable this option from the config panel
  • Taskbar: Fixed a possible crash in a convoluted scenario (if there are a few untitled windows with the same empty class)
  • X11: Fixed a crash when using Xinerama with multi-monitors
  • Translations: Imported translations files from Launchpad: thanks to all contributors
Plug-ins:
  • DBus:
    • Python interface: Translations: avoid blank dialogues when using special characters from .mo files with Python2.
    • Force the height of the menu, since GTK doesn't update it correctly
  • GMenu: Preload icons at startup: removed this option: it's no longer needed when using libgnome-menu-3 and it can slow down the creation of this menu
  • Indicator-Generic:
    • If no indicator found, stay in the plugin mode to not create an useless icon
    • New indicators was not automatically launched: Monitor the indicator3 dir in order to reload indicators when these files are modified/added/removed
    • Do not insert or detach icons if it's not necessary
  • Translations: Imported translations files from Launchpad
Other Changes:
  • Deluge: A menu entry to quit the application was missing
  • Gmail:
    • Make base64 work with python3
    • Handle messages with no subject
    • Updated the config file and removed an unused option
  • Pidgin/Xchat: fixed a wrong option type ('animation type' is an integer)
  • Screensaver Inhibitor: FreeDesktop: support both newer and older object path
  • Transmission:
    • A menu entry to quit the application was missing
    • urllib requires UTF-8 in python3

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 3.2.0 in Ubuntu 13.04 Raring/Ubuntu 12.10 Quantal/Ubuntu 12.04 Precise/11.10 Oneiric/11.04 Natty/10.10 Maverick/10.04 Lucid/Linux Mint (New Release)

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 3.2.0.
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

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 3.0

What's New in Cairo Dock 3.2?
Main Changes:
  • Multi-screen support has been improved;
  • A couple of new applets have been added, Screenshot and Indicator-Generic;
  • A new plugin called Sound-Effects has been added;
  • Gnome-Shell support has been integrated in this release;
  • GDM support has been added for user switching;
  • Systemd support has been added for the session management;
  • Support for all the Unity indicators has been implemented;
  • Countless bug-fixes and improvements have been added.
Core:
  • Hide dock if active window overlaps: Also hide the dock if the active window doesn't have any icon in the dock (e.g. search box, properties window, etc.)
  • Added the possibility to use a smaller timeout: e.g. avoid a freeze of the dock when using musicPlayer applet and the music player is frozen.
  • When the screen resolution changes, replace the desklets at their correct position
  • Added better support of Gnome-Shell (e.g. to show all windows with the same class, etc.)
Plug-ins:
  • Indicator-Generic: new applet!
  • A plugin to hold all your 'indicators' applets. Simply enable it and it will load all your installed indicators. You can define a blacklist to not load some indicators.
  • It replaces Sync-Menu and Printers-Menu applets
  • Support the new version of Gnome-Menu (libgnome-menu-3.0) if available
  • Improve the compatibility with BSD
Other Changes:
  • All: a few applets (GMail, Xchat, Calendar, etc.) should now support both Python 2 and 3 but it still need more work.
  • Updated to match the latest version of mintmenu (that uses mateapplet instead of gnomeapplet)
  • Supported both old (0.2) and new (0.3) versions (thanks to llaen for his help)
  • Ported it to CDApplet Python interface
  • Pidgin & Xchat: Added an option to demand attention on new message
Complete Changelog here.

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 3.1 in Ubuntu 12.10 Quantal/Ubuntu 12.04 Precise/11.10 Oneiric/11.04 Natty/10.10 Maverick/10.04 Lucid/Linux Mint (New Release)
Cairo-Dock is a pretty, fast and customizable desktop interface. You can see it as a good alternative/addition to Unity, Gnome-Shell, Xfce-panel, KDE-panel, etc
Here is a short summary of the improvements and new features in this version 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

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 3.0

What's New in Cairo Dock 3.1?
Main Changes:
  • Better integration of Unity: support of the Launcher API and better support of indicators
  • All configuration windows have been merged into a single one.
  • Added progress bars in several applets and in the Dbus API
  • The Music Player applet can control players in the systray.
  • Icons of the taskbar can be separated from launchers or not
  • The advanced mode of the configuration panel has been improved (thanks to SQP!)
  • Messaging Menu has been rewritten for newer versions and two new 'indicator' applets have been added:
  • Printers-Menu: it shows active print jobs.
  • and Sync-Menu: e.g. on Ubuntu 12.10, it collects status information data from processes that involve some form of synchronisation with servers; such as about apps like Ubuntu One.
  • various bug fixes and improvements
Core:
  • The dock now supports XRandr which should replace Xinerama and help the dock to manage multi-monitors.
  • Progress bars can now be customised (in the advanced mode of the configuration panel / 'Indicators' module).
  • We can drop .sh files into the dock to quickly create a new launcher.
  • The "Lock icons position" now only block the icons position but we can still add new launchers/files from the menu/file manager.
  • QuickList menu entries are now translated if it's available.
  • We can now launch the dock with '-W' (--metacity-workaround) option which is a workaround for window managers (e.g. Metacity) not handling the opacity correctly (if your subdock/dock/dialogues are invisible).
  • Window's actions have been merged into a single menu entry (right-click menu).
  • The default view now use all the screen space to avoid the jitter of the dock when it is resized (visible only if your window manager doesn't resize it correctly).
  • Labels in vertical dock now ends with a gradation.
  • The dock now supports animated images with variable rate (have a look to the new 'Busy' animation when the Weather applet is downloading data or when you're uploading files with the 'Drop to Share' applet).
Plug-ins:
  • Clock: We can now easily add a new task by doing a right click on the calendar.
  • Drop to Share: Supported text files (now it uploads the content of text files to servers like pastebin).
  • Applications Menu: used gio to launch the menu entries, so that the event is stored in Zeitgeist.
  • Mail: Improved the look of the icon and its dialogue.
  • MusicPlayer: Prevented displaying quicklists, since the applet already provides all the common actions for any player.
  • Notification Area: displayed the title, the label and the description (if they are available) on the label of the icon.
  • PowerManager: displayed the details of all batteries (and not only the first one) and modify the icon if the battery is removed/added.
  • QuickBrowser: Added drag support (e.g. to quickly drop file into GMail in order to join this file to the mail).
  • Recent-Events: prevented double entries in the menu list and unavailable files.
  • Recent Events: added recent applications.
  • Shortcuts: added the possibility to launch nautilus-connect-server from its menu
  • Shortcuts: Move 'Home' directory to the bookmark list
  • Stack: it now supports all URI extensions, not only files from the file system but also files from servers or even from the trash.
  • Switcher: Added new options and modify the lists of options. Now we can have a very simple drawing (like Swichter applet of the Gnome-Panel).
  • Added an option to have progress bars in a few applet (Sound Control, Wifi, PowerManager, etc.).
Other Changes:
  • A new 'third-party' applet is available: YoutubeDL to easily download Youtube videos (thanks to Brian).
  • Twitter applet now supports Identi.ca.
  • 3 new themes are available.
  • The code has been cleaned in order to remove most warnings when we compile it with -Wall (and -Wextra for the core).
  • Translations have been updated.

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 3.0.2 in Ubuntu 12.10 Quantal/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 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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