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Docky is a branched out application from Gnome-Do and has turned into a full fledged dock application for Linux.

Docky is a frontend for GNOME Do (Do) that introduces an entirely new way to interact with Do. Docky helps Do become more directly involved with your desktop by providing a persistent mouse based Dock interface while remaining true to Do’s keyboard only interaction. Being tied directly into Do allows Docky to be adaptive and dynamic. As your usage patterns change, so too does Docky. For everything Do can do, Docky can too.

Following are some of the features of Docky:

  • Drag and Drop items onto the Dock (files, folders, and applications from the menu)
  • Drag and Drop remove items from the dock
  • Drag and Drop items into folders on the dock, as well as the trash can.
  • Drag and Drop reordering of items on the dock
  • Image previews of items which support it
  • True parabolic zoom (can be disabled)
  • Click animations
  • Intuitive resizing by dragging on the dock separator
  • Adding and removing “Statistical Items” (items which Do considers relevant to you) from the dock by dragging the left and right edges
  • Window indicators (supports advanced window indicators)
  • Advanced window management features via the Window Manager plugin for GNOME Do
  • The ability to make Docky Automatically Hide when not being hovered. Often referred to as autohide.
  • A full frontend to GNOME Do
  • Add items to docky from GNOME Do searches

Installing Docky on Linux Mint 9 is pretty simple and straight forward. We can do this using the PPA. Type the following in a terminal window

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:docky-core/ppa
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install docky


This will install Docky on your machine. Once installed you can find it under Menu > Accessories > Docky. By default it’s also added to your default startup applications.

Enjoy and flaunt the new docky!