Cairo Dock 2.4.0 Released | Install On Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Through Ubuntu 11.10 Oneiric Using PPA

Cairo-Dock also known as Glx-Dock is a graphical user interface application launcher to quickly organize applications and files from docks and desklets and easily launch them.

Cairo-Dock 2.4.0 introduces many improvements, bug fixes, new applets, new themes, improved the integration of Cairo-Dock in the Xfce desktop and several plugins updates.

What’s New in Cairo-Dock/Glx-Dock 2.4.0 “Main Changes”

• The Power-Manager applet has been rewritten to work on any platform.
• A new Help applet has been added to help our beloved users
• Integration in the XFCE desktop has been improved.
• Several new DBus methods gives you the possibility to interact on the dock more easily.
• The dock can now be used in a Compiz-standalone environment.
• Let your dock dance thanks to the new Impulse applet! Have a look at this new applet, it’s fun (but useless?)

Take a quick look at the new features and improvements for Cairo-Dock installed on Ubuntu 11.10 Oneiric Ocelot in this screencast.

Install Cairo-Dock 2.4.0 On Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx through Ubuntu 11.10 Oneiric Ocelot Using PPA

Run Terminal, then type.

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

To install Cairo-Dock on other Linux distribution “Debian, Fedora, Gentoo, Mandriva, OpenSUSE, ..etc” click Here.

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