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How to install Cairo Dock in Ubuntu 10.04 (Lucid Lynx)

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Cairo Dock is a docking application for Linux. It’s quite awesome and makes a wonderful addition to your Linux’s look and feel. Let’s see how to install this lovely utility in Ubuntu 10.04 (Lucid Lynx).

But before we get into the details of installing it. Let’s see how it looks like on Ubuntu 10.04.

Let’s get on with the installation. Open a terminal window and add the following line and copy paste the following line.

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:cairo-dock-team/ppa

Next up copy paste the following line in your terminal

sudo apt-get update

Next copy paste the following to install Cairo Dock in your Ubuntu 10.04.

sudo apt-get install cairo-dock

That’s it Cairo dock is installed. You can start it by going to Applications > System Tools > Cairo Dock (If your system doesn’t support OpenGPL).

If you have OpenGPL support you can run cairo dock with OpenGPL

Applications > System Tools > GLX-Dock.

By default Cairo is not installed to run at startup. You can do so, by going to System > Preferences > Startup Applications. And adding the following.

That’s all. We are done here!

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fab

To launch it at startup, you can just right-click on it -> cairo-dock -> launch on startup
no need to do the thing manually.
http://linuxhub.net/ Vivek Kumar

@fab thanks for the tip mate!
asddf

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I'm running cairo 2.1.3-7 on OpenSuse 11.2.
peter butler….

awesome dude……
voltaire

I am also running 10.04 but for me and after install, it's not “Applications > System Tools > Cairo Dock” but “Applications > Accessories > Cairo Dock”.

Cairo is awesome, thanks for posting…
brian

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Marjer

Great! Thanks!
Olmos5630

gracias!! viva linux
Pedroflovera

Thanks amigo!!..
tpham

Thanks alot for this tut mate. you are amazing. my dock work like a charm. you can right click on it and choose start dock on start up. hehe