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razorboy5
July 31st, 2009, 04:38 AM
Hey

which dock do u prefer?

also does anyone know a dock u can put on the side of the screen?
i know awn is coming out with one soon...

thx

(also wasn't sure if this was the appropriate place to post sry if it's not)
unknownPoster
July 31st, 2009, 04:56 AM
You can modify XFCE's panel to look and behave like a dock if you're into that kind of thing.
arcdrag
July 31st, 2009, 05:10 AM
Right now I'm trying gnome-do docky, and I'm liking it. I just wish it was more customizable. I've tried AWN and Cairo, and of those I think I like AWN the most.
Pogeymanz
July 31st, 2009, 05:13 AM
Cairo has always been pretty buggy for me, but it seems like it would be really nice if it worked right...

I haven't used any others because of all the Gnome deps. Plus I don't really need a dock anyway, I just like to play around with it once in a while.
Sublime Porte
July 31st, 2009, 05:25 AM
I use both awn and cairo. I'm pretty sure cairo can be put in different locations...

AWN is probably the more stable, cairo still has quite a few bugs.

Gnome-do docky is a nice idea, but quite spartan when it comes to features.
razorboy5
July 31st, 2009, 05:27 AM
just tried Cairo briefly and yes u can put it on side but for me seems alot more laggier and buggier

never heard of the gnome-do dock will look into it thx :P
orlox
July 31st, 2009, 05:37 AM
Have you tried dockbarx??

Its pretty much windows 7 taskbar, but I like the feature it has that allows me to use compiz scale effect to preview groups of windows.
Excedio
July 31st, 2009, 06:12 AM
*snip*also does anyone know a dock u can put on the side of the screen?
i know awn is coming out with one soon...*snip*


Where did you read this information? I'd like to see.
razorboy5
July 31st, 2009, 06:29 AM
https://answers.launchpad.net/awn/+question/31584

i was quite sure i read more recent posts with the same info stating that the next version of AWN will have the capability of moving the dock to the side

unfortunately i can no longer find it :S sry
Tipped OuT
July 31st, 2009, 06:50 AM
1. AWN
2. Cairo Dock
3. Docky
binbash
July 31st, 2009, 08:14 AM
gnome-do with docky
moonbeam
August 1st, 2009, 04:12 AM
Where did you read this information? I'd like to see.

Here's a screencast I did a couple months ago. http://moon-shiny.blogspot.com/2009/06/quick-screencast.html

Expect the new code to start hitting the awn-testing ppa within days.