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Cairo-Dock

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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).

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License model

  • FreeOpen Source

Application type

Country of Origin

  • FR flagFrance
  • European Union flagEU

Platforms

  • Linux
  • Xfce
  • Wayland
3.7 / 5 Avg rating (3)
79likes
5comments
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Properties

  1.  Support for Themes

Features

  1.  Extensible by Plugins/Extensions
  2.  Ad-free
  3.  Dock
  4.  Launcher
  5.  Application Launchers

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Cairo-Dock information

  • Developed by

    FR flagYann SLADEK
  • Licensing

    Open Source (GPL-3.0) and Free product.
  • Rating

    Average rating of 3.7
  • Alternatives

    47 alternatives listed
  • Supported Languages

    • English

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Our users have written 5 comments and reviews about Cairo-Dock, and it has gotten 79 likes

Cairo-Dock was added to AlternativeTo by gyorgyjano on Apr 19, 2009 and this page was last updated Mar 18, 2025. Cairo-Dock is sometimes referred to as Cairo Dock, GLX-Dock, GLX Dock.

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Top Positive Comment
wajeeh
Apr 9, 2019
0

limitless features, FREE and reliable launch bar.

Top Negative Comment
mohammadghasemi
Jul 25, 2015
1

Some plugins have many dependencies, needs composite extension

Duncan Briggs
Jul 5, 2022
1

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

Johnzerer
Sep 9, 2015
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.

ilmarvor
Feb 24, 2011
0

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

What is Cairo-Dock?

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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