Install Cairo Dock 3.3.1 in Ubuntu 13.10 Saucy/Ubuntu 13.04 Raring/Ubuntu 12.10 Quantal/Ubuntu 12.04 Precise/10.04 Lucid/11.10/11.04/10.10/Linux Mint 16/15/14/13/12/11/10/9/other Ubuntu derivatives

Cairo-Dock, a fast and customizable desktop interface which can be used as alternative or addition to Unity, Gnome-Shell, Xfce-panel, and KDE-panel, is now at version 3.3.1.
Cairo-Dock sits in the centre of your desktop, allowing you to monitor and control your favourite apps: music players, chat messengers, twitter, torrents downloaders, RSS feeds, calendar/tasks, weather, mail checkers, etc, and a powerful taskbar.
Cairo Dock includes many plugins/applets such as: weather, clock, Messaging Menu, system monitor, keyboard indicators, custom icons, notification area, clipboard manager, and many other plugins.

What’s in this release?
Main Changes:

• Added a search entry in the Applications Menu. It allows to rapidly look for programs from their name or their description
• Added support of logind in the Logout applet
• Better integration in the Cinnamon desktop
• Added support of the StartupNotification protocol. It allows launchers to be animated until the application opens and avoids accidental double launches
• Added an new third-party applet: Notification History to never miss a notification
• Upgraded the Dbus API to be even more powerful
• A huge rewrite of the core using Objects

Core:

• Cairo-Dock Session:
  • Support Gnome Session 3.8
  • When launching it for the first time and if Compiz is running, enable a staticswitcher (Alt+Tab) if no switcher is enabled
• Default themes: added a few default apps for XFCE
• Dialogues:
  • Prevent dialogues from going out of the screen if the WM doesn’t handle this
  • Close the sub-dock if a dialogue overlaps it
  • Fixed a bug that made the background of the widgets inside the dialogue visible
• GUI: settings about images: used the image selector widget instead file selector widget
• Docks:
  • Fixed a bug that made a sub-dock hide itself when placed in the top left corner of the screen
  • Fixed a bug that prevented sub-docks to hide in specific conditions
• OpenGL:
  • Created a backend for the OpenGL interfaces (can be useful for a future support of other OpenGL interfaces)
  • The Intel 4000HD is now blacklisted (except if ‘cairo-dock -o’ command is used) due to annoying bug
• Tests: Added a test framework, and several tests
• Theme packager: added the possibility to select another output directory and added a message if there is an error
• Windows:
  • Isolated a lot of functions linked to X11 (can be useful for a future support of Wayland or Mir)
  • If a window has no type and is not transient (e.g. windows of xterm, lxterm, uxterm, and rxvt), keep it on the taskbar
• Misc:
  • Renamed our launcher: ‘Cairo-Dock (no OpenGL)’ => ‘Cairo-Dock (Fallback Mode)’
  • Updated the documentation of the API: https://doc.glx-dock.org and Documentation
  • Updated translations

Plug-ins:

• Applications Menu:
  • Added support of ezame, a new Menu Editor
  • Added an option to not load settings.menu file (can be useless or it duplicates menu sections on some systems)
  • Set the desktop environment to correctly exclude apps
• Clipper: In some cases the history was not saved before the end of the session
• Clock:
  • Interface: Python: fixed a crash if no translation file is found for this domain
  • Installation: Python: support DESTDIR env var
• DBus:
  • Support login1 for the ‘resuming’ signal
  • ICAL: Check if a task a valid before adding it
• Drop to Share:
  • Added Imgur.com support
  • Fixed imageshack.us and uppix.com support
  • Improved error messages
  • Added the possibility to translate some dedicated menus
  • Fixed the title of the Text items in the History menu
• Indicator-applet3 (Indicator-Generic):
  • Added support of new Indicator Services (Indicator-NG, installed in /usr/share/unity/indicators)
  • Added a workaround to draw the correct image after a short delay if the image is not yet ready.
• Logout:
  • Lock Screen: added support of cinnamon-screensaver, all [smthg]-screensaver daemons and light-locker
  • Added the possibility to switch user with a custom command
  • Fixed switch user when using GDM
  • Displayed a warning message if it’s not possible to reboot/shutdown.
• Mail: Added the possibility to use a specific icon for each account
• Note-taking: improve the window to edit notes
• Notification area: Hide the icon if there is no item (if there is nothing to display)
• PowerManager:
  • Better handle the case where a device is added/removed
  • Capacity: used the sum and not the average of all batteries
  • Label: used shorter string for the label and start with the percentage (should be better when displaying the dock in a vertical position where labels have a maximum size)
• Recent-event:
  • Support both Zeitgeist-1.0 and Zeitgeist-2.0
  • Dialogue: used a longer search bar (expanded and filled)
  • Update the result each time a new key is pressed
• Switcher: listen to more events to correctly update the icon when a window is moved/minimised/created/…
• Terminal: Added a few more options: scrollback, scroll on output/keystroke, custom font
• Weather: URL for the detailed weather has changed
• Wifi:
  • If we don’t want the quickinfo: refresh the icon too
  • Used the full path for iwconfig

Other Changes:

• Deluge: A menu entry to quit the application was missing
• Calendar:
  • Used ‘cal’ if ‘ncal’ is not available
  • Added a theme selector: default, faenza, custom
• Screensaver inhibitor: only list processes of the current user
• Moon: fixed a few bugs:
  • Added the possibility to translate the label (days)
  • When using a subdock for the next 7 days, also change the main icon
  • Added the possibility to use other icons in different formats (only in the directory of the applet)
  • Removed duplicated code
• Translator: invert languages when scrolling
• Twitter: Updating to the API 1.1
• Deluge & KTorrent: translated torrents info message
• GMail: reduce the number of update of the icon/quickinfo (do that only if it’s needed)
• Google: Parser: if the URL can changed: with or without ‘/url’ (it depends of the country)
• Transmission:
  • Added the possibility to display the remaining time of the slowest active torrent as quick-info
  • Improved torrents info dialogue
  • Fixed a possible crash if Transmission has never been launched before
• Websearch:
  • Fixed Google, Flickr and Bing search.
  • Removed Webshots (no longer available) and Twitter (api has changed).
  • List of results now shows the search engine’s logo if is not a thumbnailable link icon.
• Misc:
  • Added the possibility to translate the name of the applet
  • Fixed some compatibilities with Python 3 (some applets still need Python 2)

To install Cairo Dock in Ubuntu/Linux Mint open Terminal (Press Ctrl+Alt+T) and copy the following commands in the Terminal:

That’s it