Cairo Dock includes many plugins/applets such as: weather, clock, Messaging Menu, system monitor, keyboard indicators, custom icons, notification area, clipboard manager, and many other plugins.
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What's New in Cairo Dock 3.0?
- The taskbar has been greatly enhanced.
- The Log out applet has been rewritten, now allowing you to switch users.
- The control of the dock from the keyboard is now very powerful:
- many shortkeys have been added in several applets.
- you can activate a launcher by pressing a shortkey + its number.
- all shortkeys can now be managed in a single place in the configuration window.
- The Sound Menu from Ubuntu has been integrated into the Sound-Control applet.
- A new Twitter applet lets you tweet in one click.
- A new applet to inhibit the screensaver in one click.
- Separators are transparent to click in 'Panel' mode.
- Cairo-Dock now uses GTK3, for a better integration in a Gnome desktop.
- Few additions to the DBus API.
- Text drawing (e.g. with Clock) has been improved.
- Icons from user icons theme are now loaded with the right size.
- The new default theme with a panel is now included in the core package.
To Install Cairo Dock 3.0 on Ubuntu/Linux Mint (Press Ctrl+Alt+T) and copy the following commands in the Terminal:
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- sudo add-apt-repository ppa:cairo-dock-team/ppa
- sudo apt-get update
- sudo apt-get install cairo-dock cairo-dock-plug-ins
