Docky and its alternatives

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Gnome Do

Open Source by David Siegel |
Linux

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GNOME Do allows you to quickly search for many items present on your desktop or the web, and perform useful actions on those items. GNOME Do is inspired by Quicksilver & GNOME Launch Box.

Office & Productivity application-launcher, plugins, keystroke-launcher
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Cairo-Dock

Open Source by Yann SLADEK |
Linux

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Cairo-Dock is an animated application launch bar for the desktop, comparable to the dock in Mac OS X or Rocket Dock (for Windows). It is compatible with Compiz-Fusion, Beryl, Compiz and Xcompmgr, but it can...

Office & Productivity launcher, application-launcher, dock, taskbar
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Avant Window Navigator

Open Source by Neil J. Patel |
Linux

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Avant Window Navigator (AWN/Awn) is a dock-like navigation bar for the linux desktop that positions itself at the bottom of the screen. It can be used to keep track of open windows and behaves like a normal...

Office & Productivity launcher, application-launcher, dock, taskbar
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Unity

Open Source by Canonical Ltd. |
Linux

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Unity is a shell interface for the GNOME desktop environment developed by Canonical Ltd for its Ubuntu operating system. It is designed to make more efficient use of space given the limited screen size of...

OS & Utilities ubuntu, desktop-environment, interface
+2 more shell-interface, desktop-shell
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GnomePanel

Open Source by GNOME |
Linux

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GnomePanel is a highly configurable launcher and taskbar for GNOME. It forms a core part of the default GNOME desktop.

Office & Productivity application-launcher, taskbar, application-manager
+5 more system-tray, panel, window-docking, applets, window-navigation
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tint2

Open Source |
Linux

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tint2 is a simple panel/taskbar unintrusive and light (memory / cpu / aestetic). We try to get virtual desktop and multi-monitor easier to use. We follow freedesktop specifications. As of version 0.9...

dock, application-manager, system-tray, panel, systray
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DockbarX

Free by Matias Särs |
Linux

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This is a branch - not a fork - of DockBar (a TaskBar with grouping and group manipulation) with some extra features added.

gnome, dockbar
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PyPanel

Open Source |
Linux

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PyPanel is a lightweight panel/taskbar written in Python and C for X11 window managers. It can be easily customized to match any desktop theme or taste. PyPanel works with EWMH compliant WMs (Openbox, PekWM,...

launcher, notifications, dock, system-tray, panel
+1 more launchbar
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Tintwizard

Open Source |
Linux

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An easy way to change the appearance of tint2. Through an easy-to-use graphical user interface, you can generate configs and apply to them tint2.

OS & Utilities dock, configuration, panel, configuration-management
+2 more dock-utility, dock-themes
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BMPanel

Open Source by no.smile.face |
Linux

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BMPanel (bitmap panel) is a lightweight, NETWM compliant panel for X11 Window System, which contains a desktop switcher, taskbar, system tray and clock. The application is inspired by simplicity of fspanel....

clock, taskbar, system-tray, panel, desktop-switcher
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Plank

Open Source by Docky |
Linux

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Plank is meant to be the simplest dock on the planet. The goal is to provide just what a dock needs and absolutely nothing more. It is, however, a library which can be extended to create other dock programs...

Office & Productivity launcher, application-launcher, dock, taskbar
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Dzen

Open Source by Robert Manea |
Linux

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Dzen is a general purpose messaging, notification and menuing program for X11. It was designed to be scriptable in any language and integrate well with window managers like dwm, wmii and xmonad though it will...

notifications, messaging, menu-bar, x11