NAME¶

cairo-dock - An light eye-candy fully themable animated dock for any Linux desktop

SYNOPSYS¶

cairo-dock

Description¶

An light eye-candy fully themable animated dock for any Linux desktop This has a family-likeness with OSX dock, but with more options. Uses cairo to render nice graphics, and Glitz to use hardware acceleration. It's fully configurable and can be a taskbar too. You can easily plug applets into it.

Usage¶

    % cairo-dock [OPTION...] 

Options¶

Help Options:

-h, --help

Show help options

Application Options:

-l, --log

log verbosity (debug,message,warning,critical,error) default is warning

-c, --cairo

use Cairo backend

-o, --opengl

use OpenGL backend

-O, --indirect-opengl

use OpenGL backend and toggle On/Off indirect rendering. Use this instead of -o if you have some drawing artifacts, like invisible icons.

-i, --indirect

deprecated - see -O

-a, --keep-above

keep the dock above other windows whatever

-p, --no-skip-pager

show the dock in pager

-b, --no-skip-taskbar

show the dock in taskbar

-s, --no-sticky

don't make the dock appear on all desktops

-t, --toolbar-hint

force the window manager to consider cairo-dock as a toolbar instead of a dock

-n, --normal-hint

force the window manager to consider cairo-dock as a normal appli instead of a dock

-e, --env

force the dock to consider this environnement - it may crash the dock if not set properly.

-d, --dir

force the dock to load this directory, instead of ~/.config/cairo-dock.

-m, --maintenance

allow to edit the config before the dock is started and show the config panel on start

-x, --exclude

exclude a given plug-in from activating (it is still loaded though)

-f, --safe-mode

don't load any plug-ins

-C, --capuccino

-X, --expresso

-L, --cafe-latte

Cairo-Dock makes anything, including coffee !

-v, --version

print version and quit.

-M, --modules-dir

ask the dock to load additionnal modules contained in this directory (though it is unsafe for your dock to load unnofficial modules).

-T, --testing

for debugging purpose only. The crash manager will not be started to hunt down the bugs.

-E, --easter-eggs

for debugging purpose only. Some hidden and still unstable options will be activated.

-S, --server

address of a server containing additional themes. This will overwrite the default server address.

-k, --locked

lock the dock so that any modification is impossible for users.

AUTHOR¶

This manual page was written by Debian Cairo-dock Maintainers <pkg-cairo-dock-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org>, for the Debian GNU/Linux system(but may be used by others).