NAME
cairo-dock - A dock to launch your programs easily.
SYNOPSIS
cairo-dock [options]
DESCRIPTION
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 downloadable in 1 click, and can be easily customized at your convenience.
It can use hardware acceleration (OpenGL) to be very fast and low on CPU.
It's recommended to install the PLUG-INS package ( cairo-dock-plug-ins ) to have access to more views, dialogues and many plug-ins and applets.
Some screenshots are available :
http://pics.glx-dock.org
Development site:
https://launchpad.net/cairo-dock
OPTIONS
You can launch Cairo-Dock with several options :
(Note : you can use these options in one block. For example : cairo-dock -oia )
- -c, --cairo
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Force Cairo backend. Use this option if you have issue with the OpenGL mode.
- -o, --opengl
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Force OpenGL backend. Cairo-Dock with OpenGL/Hardware acceleration.
- -O, --indirect-opengl
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Use OpenGL backend with indirect rendering. There are very few case where this option should be used.
- -A, --ask-backend
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Ask again on startup which backend to use.
- -l, --log [option]
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Log verbosity (options : debug, message, warning, critical, error - default is 'warning').
For example : cairo-dock -l debug
- -F, --colors
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Force to display some output messages with colors even if these messages are not displayed into a tty.
- -w, --wait
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Wait for N seconds before starting. This is useful if you notice some problems when the dock starts with the session.
- -a, --keep-above
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Force to keep the dock above other windows.
- -s, --no-sticky
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Don't make the dock appear on all desktops.
- -e, --env
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Force the dock to consider this environment (gnome, xfce, etc.) - it may crash the dock if not set properly.
- -d, --dir
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Force the dock to load the configuration in this directory (default is ~/.config/cairo-dock).
- -m, --maintenance
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Allow to edit the config before the dock is started and show the config panel on startup.
- -x, --exclude
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Exclude a given plug-in from activating (it is still loaded though).
- -f, --safe-mode
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Don't load any plug-ins and show the theme manager on startup.
- -W, --metacity-workaround
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Work around some bugs in Metacity Window-Manager (invisible dialogs or sub-docks)
- -M, --modules-dir
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Ask the dock to load additional modules contained in this directory (though it is unsafe for your dock to load unofficial modules).
- -T, --testing
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For debugging purpose only. The crash manager will not be started to hunt down the bugs.
- -E, --easter-eggs
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For debugging purpose only. Some hidden and still unstable options will be activated.
- -S, --server
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Address of a server containing additional themes. This will overwrite the default server address.
- -k, --locked
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Lock the dock so that any modification is impossible for users.
OTHER
Some other options with an output in the terminal :
- -v, --version
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Print version and quit.
- -h, --help
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Show the help and quit.
- -C, --capuccino
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Cairo-Dock makes anything, including coffee !
FILES
- ~/.config/cairo-dock/
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Your config files are saved in this repertory. You can use '-d' option to change it.
- /usr/share/cairo-dock/
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Data files for Cairo-Dock.
- /usr/lib/cairo-dock/
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Binary files for Cairo-Dock and its plug-ins.
AUTHOR
Most of the Cairo-Dock project was written by Fabrice Rey (fabounet) <[email protected]>.
The Cairo-Dock Team is currently formed by Fabounet (Fabrice Rey) and Matttbe (Matthieu Baerts).
With the help of Eduardo Mucelli for our third-party applets.
Thanks to our former developers: Mav (Yann Sladek), Tofe (Christophe Chapuis), Nochka85 (Yann Dulieu), ChanGFu (Rémy Robertson), Paradoxxx Zero (Florian Mounier), Necropotame (Adrien Pilleboue), Rom1 (Romain Perol), Ctaf , Augur and SQP as well as numerous beta testers and contributors: lylambda, taiebot65, Franksuse64, ppmt, etc. see the 'About' menu in the dock and this web page.
http://glx-dock.org/userlist_messages.php
Don't hesitate to contribute to this project ;)
Please have a look at this wiki page:
http://glx-dock.org/ww_page.php?p=How%20to%20help%20us
This manual page was started by Julien Lavergne <[email protected]>, for the Debian project (but may be used by others).
Updated by Matthieu Baerts (matttbe) <[email protected]>.
BUGS
Your bug is maybe a recurrent problem (black background, window at startup (use -c or -o), problem with OpenGL, etc.). Please go to:
http://www.glx-dock.org/ww_page.php?p=Recurrents%20problems
For any other bugs, you can post them on Cairo-Dock forum:
http://forum.glx-dock.org
or on Launchpad
https://bugs.launchpad.net/cairo-dock
WEBSITE
< http://glx-dock.org >