Cairo-Dock is a pretty, light and convenient interface to your desktop, able to replace advantageously your system panel! It features multi-docks, taskbar, launchers and a lot of useful applets. Applets can be detached from the dock to act as desktop widgets. Numerous ready-to-use themes are available in 1 click, and can be easily customized at your convenience. It can use hardware acceleration to be very fast and low on CPU.
Other screenshots are available at Glx-Dock.org.
This project is split in 3 parts:
The Cairo-Dock-Session project aims to provide an easy way to install a session that is desktop agnostic and uses Cairo-Dock as a Shell (the main interface).
Please see our Wiki at Glx-Dock.org for an excellent installation guide.
Tarballs of the sources are available at: https://launchpad.net/cairo-dock-core and https://launchpad.net/cairo-dock-plug-ins
Binary packages of the development version for Ubuntu 22.04 and 24.04 are available here : https://launchpad.net/~cairo-dock-team/+archive/ubuntu/weekly
Additional information specific to compiling Cairo-Dock to run under Wayland is available here.
See our wiki! http://www.glx-dock.org/ww_page.php
You can find: how to launch the dock at startup, how to customise it, how to resolve some recurrent problems (black background, messages at startup, etc.), how to help us, who we are, etc. A useful tutorial is also available to help you customize your dock: http://www.glx-dock.org/ww_page.php?p=Tutorial-Customisation&lang=en
If you have other questions not solved on our wiki you can post them on our forum (in English or French): http://www.glx-dock.org/bg_forumlist.php
Additional information specific to running Cairo-Dock under Wayland is available here.
You can report bugs in Launchpad under the 'Bugs' section. If possible:
Thank you for your help!