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 on Ubuntu/Linux Mint (New Release)

Install Cairo Dock 3.0 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.

Screen Shots from Cairo Dock Article

What's New in Cairo Dock 3.0?

1. The taskbar has been greatly enhanced.
2. The Log out applet has been rewritten, now allowing you to switch users.
3. 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.
4. The Sound Menu from Ubuntu has been integrated into the Sound-Control applet.
5. A new Twitter applet lets you tweet in one click.
6. A new applet to inhibit the screensaver in one click.
7. Separators are transparent to click in 'Panel' mode.
8. Cairo-Dock now uses GTK3, for a better integration in a Gnome desktop.
9. Few additions to the DBus API.
10. Text drawing (e.g. with Clock) has been improved.
11. Icons from user icons theme are now loaded with the right size.
12. 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:

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

Here is site of Glx-Dock. Enjoy