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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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  • Linux
  • Wayland
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  1.  Support for Themes
  2.  Privacy focused
  3.  Customizable

Features

  1.  Ad-free
  2.  Extensible by Plugins/Extensions
  3.  Hardware Accelerated
  4.  No Tracking
  5.  Dark Mode
  6.  No registration required
  7.  Works Offline
  8.  Dock
  9.  Launcher
  10.  Application Launchers

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Top Positive Comment
wajeeh
0

limitless features, FREE and reliable launch bar.

Top Negative Comment
mohammadghasemi
1

Some plugins have many dependencies, needs composite extension

Duncan Briggs
1

According to AlternativeTo, Cairo-Dock runs on Linux. Can anyone recommend a dock replacement for macOS?

Johnzerer
0

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.

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ilmarvor
0

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

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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.

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Our users have written 5 comments and reviews about Cairo-Dock, and it has gotten 85 likes

Cairo-Dock was added to AlternativeTo by gyorgyjano on and this page was last updated . Cairo-Dock is sometimes referred to as Cairo Dock, GLX-Dock, GLX Dock, Cairo.