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First Steps

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For that first Launch
To launch Cairo-Dock, press Alt + F2 and type cairo-dock in the box that opened then validate.

You can also do it from a terminal:
cairo-dock &


Launch Cairo-Dock at Startup

With the 2.0 release, you can choose between using Cairo-Dock with or without OpenGL. With OpenGL, the use of your video card is maximised and the dock with many effects and plug-ins is fluid all the time even with a CPU under heavy load! Unfortunately all ATI and many Intel cards don't support the OpenGL v2 as well as Nvidia cards. For the owner of ATI or Intel video card, for which DRI2 support is under development, as well as for the legacy video card which do no support OpenGL v2, the cairo back-end is still available. This allow everybody to be able to enjoy most of the dock's improvements and the new applets. But, this drivers are improving every day and we hope that you can use Cairo-Dock with OpenGL with every graphics cards!
Note that with the "same" config of AWN and Cairo-Dock without OpenGL, Cairo-Dock use less CPU than AWN.

Cairo-Dock with OpenGL
cairo-dock-o

Cairo-Dock with Cairo back-end
cairo-dock-c


For Gnome
Menu : System> Preferences> Sessions> Select the tab "Startup Programs> Add
Enter the commands for the program: cairo-dock -o (with OpenGL) or cairo-dock -c (without OpenGL)

For KDE
KDE Configuration Center> KDE Components> Add
Enter the commands for the program: cairo-dock -o (with OpenGL) or cairo-dock -c (without OpenGL)

For XFCE
Menu :
Parameters> Applications started Automatically> Add
Enter the commands for the program: cairo-dock -o (with OpenGL) or cairo-dock -c (without OpenGL)

For Beryl User
you only see the dock on one of the face of the cube! (no problem with Compiz-fusion now )
In case you launch Cairo-Dock at startup and you are using Beryl, you will have to use a little script to delay the startup of the dock.

Create a file called launch-cairo-dock-after-beryl.sh, and copy/paste the following code in it:
#!/bin/sh

#we wait 12 seconds so that Beryl gets ready (you may need more or less)
sleep 12
# the path of cairo-dock (may be different for you)
cairo-dock &

Make it executable
sudo chmod +x launch-cairo-dock-after-beryl.sh

And use that script to launch the dock at startup

PLUG-INS or APPLETS

Click here for more
To configure them right click on them >>
Configure this module

For the applets that are inactive: right click and choose
Cairo-Dock >> Configure >> System or Applets (if you are in Advanced mode)

Launchers

Click here for more
To create a launcher you can either drag'n drop directly from the
Application Menu onto the dock or do it all manually: right click >>add a Launcher

To remove one: right click and select
Remove this launcher

Sub-Docks

Sub dock are icons that contains launchers see them as
menu>sub menu: Right click and selectAdd a sub-dock

Move
Applicable for Applications/Launchers and sub-docks/applets

By Drag and Drop or right click >>
Move this icons and for the launcher also from right click >>Modify this launcher >> Extra parameters++ and select a numerical order value :
=>1 for first position, 1.7, 2, 3, 4, 4.5, 4.550 etc...

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Cairo-Dock needs you
Several research on the web shows that some people have been able to use the dock on a few Linux distributions:
  • Ubuntu (Cairo-Dock is developed on that distribution)
  • Fedora
  • ArchLinux
  • Mandriva
  • Gentoo

As well as a few windows manager:
  • Gnome (of course)
  • KDE
  • Xfce


No definitive tutorial though just a few links. If you have some linsk to tutorial (wiki, website, blog,etc...) or some RPMs, basically anything that would help others to install the dock on their system.
Just make sure that the information is up to date.


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