Cairo-Dock is a desktop interface that takes the cast of docks, desklets, panel too applets. It is designed to hold upward light, fast too customizable, too is desktop-agnostic. It has a powerful DBus interface, to hold upward controlled from a in conclusion or only about other application. Features tin plough over the sack hold upward added yesteryear plug-ins or applets, too applets tin plough over the sack hold upward written inwards C or inwards whatever language. Most actions tin plough over the sack hold upward done from keyboard. It is compatible alongside Compiz-Fusion, Beryl, Compiz too Xcompmgr, but it tin plough over the sack also run without a composite director (using imitation transparency). Cairo-Dock tin plough over the sack run nether GNOME, KDE too XFCE.
Install Cairo-Dock inwards Kali Linux
To install cairo-dock y'all need to create the followings:
- Install Cairo Dock from Kali Repo
- Install Cairo-dock from Cairo-docks repo
- Add Cairo-Dock repo inwards Kali Linux sources.list file
- Add GPG Keys
- Update packet listing via apt-get
- Install Cairo-Dock too Plugins
- Run Cairo-Dock
Install Cairo-Dock from Kali Linux Repo
If you’ve used the official Kali Linux repository, too thus y'all tin plough over the sack install Cairo-Dock too all it’s requirements straight from Kali Linux repository.
Use the next command to install Cairo-Dock inwards Kali Linux from Official Kali Linux repository:
aptitude -r install cairo-dock cairo-dock-plug-ins
This volition install all cairo-dock, it’s plugins too whatever recommended packages. Move to Running Cairo-Dock department from there.
Install Cairo-dock from Cairo-docks repo
In illustration y'all don’t desire to install Cairo-dock from Kali Linux’s official repository, y'all tin plough over the sack ever add together the repository for Cairo-dock too install from there.
Add Cairo-Dock repo inwards Kali Linux
First y'all need to edit /etc/apt/sources.list file
vi /etc/apt/sources.list
add the next line
deb http://download.tuxfamily.org/glxdock/repository/debian stable cairo-dock
Save too larn out the file
Install GPG key
wget -q http://download.tuxfamily.org/glxdock/repository/cairo-dock.gpg -O- | apt-key add together -
Update packet list
Update origin list
apt-get update
Install Cairo-Dock too Plugins
Run the next command to install Cairo-Dock too plugins
apt-get install cairo-dock cairo-dock-plug-ins
Run Cairo-Dock
Now y'all tin plough over the sack launch Cairo-dock from
Applications —> System tools —> cairo-Dock
Conclusion
Cairo-Dock is a prissy tool to create got too it adds only about color to your Kali Linux’s tedious desktop. I similar monitoring too weather condition applets. They also got many theme’s that y'all tin plough over the sack play with.
In fact since writing this post, I’ve done only about to a greater extent than editing too ended upward having a groovy Desktop. I’ve used black-element theme, conky-color and cairo-dock. Wallpaper was downloaded from Wallpaperswide. What a groovy community! Here’s a novel screenshot of this desktop.
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