Cairo-Dock is an animated application launch bar for the desktop, comparable to the dock in Mac OS X or Rocket Dock (for Windows). Now, you can use Cairo-Dock with OpenGL (to use your graphic card!).
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.
Install Cairo-Dock in debian
First you need to edit /etc/apt/sources.list file
#vi /etc/apt/sources.list
add the following line
deb http://repository.cairo-dock.org/debian stable cairo-dock
Save and exit the file
Now install GPG key
#wget -q http://repository.cairo-dock.org/cairo-dock.gpg -O- | apt-key add –
Update source list
#apt-get update
Install Cairo-Dock
#apt-get install cairo-dock cairo-dock-plug-ins
Now you can launch cairo-dock from Applications —> System tools—> cairo-Dock
Screenshot
Thanks man! This is the cleanest install i’ve found. Thanks again.
damn havin a prob with this line #wget -q http://repository.cairo-dock.org/cairo-dock.gpg -O- | apt-key add – can you post an update for debian lenny pls thanks
the line :
#wget -q http://repository.cairo-dock.org/cairo-dock.gpg -O- | apt-key add –
is not necessary on the Squeeze version of debian.
in fact this line is not god at all the gpg key is unreachable. but the dock install event whitout this.
I’m using Jessie and this does not work for me. When I enter:
wget -q http://repository.cairo-dock.org/cairo-dock.gpg -O- | apt-key add —
I get: gpg: no valid OpenPGP data found.