Install Plank Dock in Ubuntu/Linux Mint - (Light Weight)

Install Plank LightWeight Dock in Ubuntu 12.10 Quantal/Ubuntu 12.04 Precise/Ubuntu 11.10/Ubuntu 11.04/Linux Mint - (Light Weight)

Plank is meant to be the simplest dock on the planet. The goal is to provide just what a dock needs and absolutely nothing more. It is, however, a library which can be extended to create other dock programs with more advanced features. Thus, Plank is the underlying technology for Docky and aims to provide all the core features while Docky extends it to add fancier things like Docklets, painters, settings dialogs, etc.

To install Plank Dock in Ubuntu/Linux Mint open Terminal (Press Ctrl+Alt+T) and copy the following commands in the Terminal:

• sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ricotz/docky
• sudo apt-get update
• sudo apt-get install plank

Configure Plank Dock:
Plank doesn�t have graphical configuration interface. To configure Plank Dock enter following command in Terminal:

• gksudo gedit ~/.config/plank/dock1/settings

For Example: edit the configuration file.
HideMode = 1 means auto hide, set to 0 to disable it.
Position = 3 means the dock location. 0 = left, 1= right, 2 = top, 3= bottom.

To Change Plank Themes:
You can add Plank themes to ~/.config/plank/theme/
Download plank themes from here

Enjoy

Source: Launchpad Docky

Install Cairo Dock 3.0.1 in Ubuntu/Linux Mint (New Release)

Install Cairo Dock 3.0.1 on Ubuntu 12.04 Precise/11.10 Oneiric/11.04 Natty/10.10 Maverick/10.04 Lucid/Linux Mint (New Release)

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.

What's New in Cairo Dock 3.0.1?

• Dock�s menu: fixed 2 annoying bugs with the menus: don�t hide if the dock is raised and don�t try to check if the mouse has left the dock if the menu is raised
• Dialogues: fixed a bug where the dock could auto-hide when a modal dialogue was raised
• Fixed a compilation error on Gentoo
• Added a compilation option to not force the display of icons in menus
• Dialogue: fixed a crash with gcc-4.7: the local variable (const gchar **) can be corrupted due to optimisations
• Fixed a bug where the dock didn�t accept clicks when the mouse touches the screen edge (with auto-hide)
• Fixed a bug where the hidden dock background colour was not updated properly
• Class-Manager: fixed a bug with Windows applications whose name is in upper case (.EXE)
• GUI: use cairo_dock_get_xwindow_class() to link a program with a launcher
• French translations: fixed 2 small errors

Plug-ins:

• Gnome-integration: fixed the time&date command
• KDE integration: fixed the time&date command
• Updated previews of dustbin and logout
• Updated the version of applets that can be always visible (for the new parameters)
• Clock: numeric view: increased the size of the rectangle if an outline is used
• + modified the default colour
• Clock: Added the possibility to have an outline
• Use the core option to not force the display of icons in menus
• Minor fixes in Sound Control�s .conf file
• MusicPlayer: mpris2: metadata: trackid attribute should be of D-Bus type �o�
• Switcher: fixed a possible crash (division by 0) if the X manager couldn�t get info from X + removed bMenuVisible
• Clock: numeric mode: fixed a bug where the date was not displayed correctly (with OpenGL)
• Clock: numeric mode: set a minimum size for the text: we keep the ratio until 12px
• Logout: added a fallback method to get the users list if the accounts daemon service is not running
• CMakeLists.txt: fixed a CMake warning (or error?)

To Install Cairo Dock 3.0 on Ubuntu/Linux Mint (Press Ctrl+Alt+T) and copy the following commands in the Terminal:

• sudo add-apt-repository ppa:cairo-dock-team/ppa
• sudo apt-get update
• sudo apt-get install cairo-dock cairo-dock-plug-ins

That's it. Enjoy

Source: glx-dock.org