MEWU - Scene 3 ... Playing with DOCK

Well , people who use MACs , must be loving its famous "dock" thing ... and i am sure that windows lovers must be feeling jealous for that dock in Macs , though they can enjoy same dock feature for windows too but still its not native application ... they need 3rd party softwares like "rocket dock" or "object dock" right ??

It's true for linux / Ubuntu too ... here they use software ... "Cairo Dock" which is perhaps the most common and most famous dock around ubuntiens !!! ... but it is not available by default in synaptic manager , we have to add 3rd party software string ...

deb http://repository.cairo-dock.org/ubuntu gutsy cairo-dock

and then , click on reload in synaptic manager ....and then seach "cairo" in it .. it will show cairo dock now ... but don't forget to choose both "cairo-dock" and "cairo-dock plugins" .... and apply .. and dinggggg , you are done .... if you prefer a bit harder way , then take a look at this official ubuntu help ...

launch it via , applications -> system tools -> cairo dock ...



But here comes one problem ... it will not launched automatically again when system is rebooted !!! ... to do it ... go to system -> preferances -> sessions , in it "startup programs" and just click on "add" , and write what ever you like for name and comment , but in command type "cairo-dock" ( ofcourse without quotes.. ) ... and it will be launched automatically with every reboot !!!


enjoy ....