What docks are available? [closed]
What is the best Linux Dock available? I'm looking for a Dock that I can customize to make it look the way I like. It needs to be theme-able and have lots of configuration options.
Please limit one dock solution per answer
Docky
I think Docky is the best dock on Linux, fully configurable and theme-able with many useful add-ons. You can easily give it a try, you'll find it in the Ubuntu Software Center.
Avant Window Navigator
This is the one I use. It's main features:
- You can put it in any place of the screen.
- Lots of skins, plus a couple of different animations. It's quite beautiful
- Taskbar/Dock
- Lots of applets
- Multidocks.
- Transparency.
- A notification area that doesn't feel out of place
- Support for indicators (only available in the newest versions (>=0.4.1), you should use the AWN Testing PPA to benefit from this feature as October 2010)
- Each applet/icon is a different process, if one crash the dock doesn't, so it's very stable.
The bolded features are the ones that I feel are more important.
Javier Rivera setup:
Cairo-Dock
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 available in 1 click, and can be easily customized at your convenience. It can use hardware acceleration to be very fast and low on CPU.
Web Page and Launchpad