Cairo-Dock
Animated dock for Linux desktops with hardware acceleration, multi-dock support, taskbar and launcher tools, and an array of applets that can act as detachable widgets. Features a macOS-like interface, multiple themes, low CPU usage, and community-driven customization.
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Features
Properties
- Support for Themes
- Privacy focused
- Customizable
Features
- Ad-free
- Extensible by Plugins/Extensions
- Hardware Accelerated
- No Tracking
- Dark Mode
- No registration required
- Works Offline
- Dock
- Launcher
- Application Launchers
Tags
- taskbar
- applet
- other-xfce
- taskbar-replacement
Cairo-Dock News & Activities
Recent News
- POX published news article about Cairo-Dock
Cairo-Dock 3.6 released with Wayland and HiDPI support, plus improved systemd integrationCairo-Dock 3.6 brings significant improvements for Linux desktop users by introducing initial suppo...
Recent activities
POX added Cairo-Dock as alternative to Another Dock- K0RR updated Cairo-Dock
- POX added Cairo-Dock as alternative to Crystal Dock
What is Cairo-Dock?
Cairo-Dock is a pretty, light and convenient interface to your desktop, able to replace advantageously your system panel! It features multi-docks, taskbar, launchers, and a lot of useful applets. Applets can be detached from the dock to act as desktop widgets. Numerous ready-to-use themes are available in 1 click, and can be easily customized at your convenience. It can use hardware acceleration to be very fast and low on CPU.
Cairo-Dock information
Developed by
Yann SLADEK Licensing
Open Source (GPL-3.0) and Free product.Alternatives
46 alternatives listedSupported Languages
- English
Comments and Reviews
limitless features, FREE and reliable launch bar.
Some plugins have many dependencies, needs composite extension
According to AlternativeTo, Cairo-Dock runs on Linux. Can anyone recommend a dock replacement for macOS?
I learned to appreciate this dock a lot.
Moving to the next song, Changing the sound volume or the active virtual Desktop by moving the scroll Wheel over an Icon is soo clever.
It Displays extensive system Information while still looking sleek.
There are quite a lot extensions available online and it's all combinable, movable and resizable
The only downside is that it is hard to configure at times.
Rainmeter under Windows offers a lot of useful and nice looking widgets, but Cairo is the ultimate Launcher for me.
This is really cool application. On my mind it is much better than other analogs for Linux, for example Docky.