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Cairo-Dock

A light, eye-candy, fully themable, MacOSX-like animated dock for any Linux desktop Created by Yann SLADEK

Free Open Source
Linux
Xfce

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 also run without a composite manager (using fake transparency). Cairo-Dock can run under GNOME, KDE and XFCE.

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Cairo-Dock (sometimes referred to as Cairo Dock, GLX-Dock, GLX Dock) was added by gyorgyjano in Apr 2009 and the latest update was made in Apr 2020. The list of alternatives was updated Apr 2020. It's possible to update the information on Cairo-Dock or report it as discontinued, duplicated or spam.

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Comment by ilmarvor

about Cairo-Dock · Jun 2011 · Helpful Not helpful Report as spam

This is really cool application. On my mind it is much better than other analogs for Linux, for example Docky.

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