how to get dash home onto the cairo-dock panel?

**Cpierce** · October 11th, 2012

Thank You Mc4man. It worked perfectly. You are the master of the launchers !

**xrockonx** · January 12th, 2013

Er.. This is a bit late, but with my Cairo-Dock I made a new launcher and I have it execute <Alt> .. because I set it so the Alt key brings up the dash.. I then hid the launcher

**sacp** · January 31st, 2013

Originally Posted by mc4man

Don't have cairo but maybe something along these lines

Code:

sudo apt-get install xdotool

Then create a .desktop either in this location or as appropriate to cairo

Code:

gedit ~/.local/share/applications/dash.desktop

Use whatever you wish for Name= & Icon=, sometimes just the icon name is ok, otherwise full path, the icon below isn't really suitable though may be ok

Code:

[Desktop Entry]
Version=1.0
Type=Application
Name=Dash
Icon=/usr/share/unity/5/launcher_bfb.png
Exec=xdotool key super

Then add dash.desktop to your cairo dock, if need be make dash.desktop executable -
chmod u+x ~/.local/share/applications/dash.desktop
or right click on > properties > permissions

Hi.
For me didn't work

followed those steps, but no avail.

**fabounet** · March 5th, 2013

Actually to add a launcher that triggers a shortkey in Cairo-Dock, you can just create a custom launcher, and set the command to the shortkey directly

In this case: <Super> (with the <>)

Also, see this page for more information on using Cairo-Dock within Unity: http://glx-dock.org/ww_page.php?p=Ca...0Unity&lang=en