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What are the best docks for Linux?
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Plank
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Feb 6, 2024
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Docky
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Feb 4, 2024
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Dec 8, 2023
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Jan 24, 2024
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Nov 10, 2023
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Plank
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Plank
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Plank
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Experiences
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Stable
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No Wayland support
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HonestIntercidona's Experience
Quite light and simple to install and use. Great for those crossing over to a linux OS.
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Solid and lightweight
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Belongs to Canonical Ltd
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Nyagu's Experience
Good and simple, so simple that it lacks proper functionality sometimes. Also the Widgets are bad, ugly, and don't fit with the rest of the dock and icons. While I recommend this dock, I do so with a heavy heart, as I wish there was a better fully-featured one that has bigger selection Widgets with regular updates.
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Simple and minimal
Plank is a good choice for those looking for something simple that just does its job well. There is no UI for options built in to the dock as to change anything those options will have to be accessed through a text file.
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Very limited customization
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PerseveringCottus's Experience
very light and beautiful
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Fast and customizable
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No right click menu for some apps outside of elementary OS
Other file explorers and terminals (those not found in the default elementary OS) do not have any right click menus for the dock meaning it is impossible to launch multiple windows for certain file explorers or terminals.
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ThriftyAngitia's Experience
Very easy to make it works
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Nice look
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Poor workspace awareness (cycling windows)
When configured to only show apps from the current workspace, cycling through windows of an app open on multiple workspaces will switch workspace focus, update the dock, and often leave you to cycle another app.
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CreativeSeker's Experience
Intermediate user.
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Third party themer available
An additional third party app has been developed that allows theming the dock without the use of any extra resources. This is great for those that are not using elementary OS and the elementary tweaks extra.
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Very limited functionality
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AuthenticFengMeng's Experience
Neat, light, fast, and customizable.
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Limited UI for settings
Many Al settings will have to be changed in a text file located in /.config/plank/dock1/settings.
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Ajay Kumar Rawani's Experience
Awesome !
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Mouse out triggers too easily
There's no padding setting for the dock. So autohide gets triggered easily by mistake. You can configure a delay instead or add padding in the theme (though it will get applied to the items and makes the tooltip position further away too).
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RobustMaat's Experience
The Manjaru AUR says it's out of date...
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No UI for settings
All settings have to be changed in a text file located in /.config/plank/dock1/settings.
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R Harrington's Experience
Simple and minimalistic, unlike Cairo
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Docky
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Docky
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Docky
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Outdated and not actively maintained
Docky and Plank is maintained by the same person. Plank is still getting occasional work, but Docky hasn't since 2015. Plank uses GTK3, while Docky still uses GTK2.
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Beautiful & feature packed
Docky is quite beautiful, and extremely customizable. It also has many features you would expect from a robust dock. It is the nearest thing to Apple's Dock on macOS.
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ThriftyAngitia's Experience
I couldn't set the icon for terminal properly. It doesn't keep it or when it does, it opens the terminal in a new icon.
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The AUR says it's out of date
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Supports padding to avoid mouse out triggering by mistake
This is called "HotAreaPadding". It's 24px by default and can be changed in gsettings (only).
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FerventHunBatz's Experience
Bugs free...
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Depends on Mono (.NET/C#)
Although the application itself is light fast and efficient, it depends on Mono, which is a large library (~250mb). If you have enough storage or already have/use Mono this isn't a problem.
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Extremely stable and themes are easy to install.
It covers all those features which Plank lack.
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Removing Docky icon is not as easy as it should be
gconf editor is required in order to remove the Docky icon from the dock, which seems unnecessary as the setting exists, it should be in the app settings instead of hidden away in gconf.
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Small text tooltips (Doesn't support HiDPI)
Docky was built for GTK v2, which doesn't support HiDP scaling, so the tooltips will likely look very small on modern screen and desktop environments.
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Issues on older hardware & finicky compatibility
Docky is notorious for being quite unstable on older hardware that cannot use newer drivers for their GPU or newer kernels. Most often people have trouble keeping docky open, as it will shut itself down often, and won't start on boot.
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tint2
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tint2
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tint2
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7
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Highly customizable
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Doesn't allow image as background
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Able to show output of any command - endless possibilities, user's imagination is the limit
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Able to show multiple instances of same application
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Has the ability to have shortcuts in addition to open application "indicators (app icon + current document name)"
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Usable; displays open document/file along with its icon
Almost all of other docks only show application name at best.
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Has the ability to show open applications from all or selected desktop
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Latte Dock
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Latte Dock
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Latte Dock
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5
Experiences
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Highly customizable
Easy to use.
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No longer supported by devs
And thus buggy.
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FriendlySuadela's Experience
Love it, highly customizable
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Looks good
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Does not yet work on Wayland
Crashes.
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DockbarX
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DockbarX
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DockbarX
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Easily customized
DockbarX has inbuilt settings that allow the user to easily customize the look of the dock, from changing the text color to the background color.
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Dependency issues when building from the AUR
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Great plugin to help blend in to XFCE4 panel
DockbarX has an available plugin called "DockBarX Xfce4 Panel plugin" that allows DockbarX to blend in seamlessly with the XFCE4 panel, which is great for XFCE users due to the limited options of the default panel.
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Dash to Dock
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Dash to Dock
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Dash to Dock
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Integrates with GNOME
Dash to Dock is a GNOME extension, so it works on GNOME.
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GNOME only
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Cairo-Dock
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Cairo-Dock
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Cairo-Dock
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Poor/No system theme or icon integration
Docks use their own theme, own theme colors, icons, layout's and theme engines.
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Very customizable and full of features
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MagicalCamazotz's Experience
Extremely customizable and flexible. Considering it's many many options it's control center is quite logical and easy to understand. It seems to use the same sort of interface as the compiz ccsm and the two work very well together. For people who like to be creative and of the wall with their desktop Cairo Dock is ideal.
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Still very buggy
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Can be heavy on resources for weaker systems
Cairo-Dock is more on the heavy side when compared to other docks, which is something to keep in mind for those that are on low resource systems.
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Resource thirsty
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Hard/Underwhelming to configure
Cairo dock proposes a feature rich tool, tweakable to any degree. The configuration menus are at times inappropriate, shallow and uninteresting, complex to navigate, and prefab-centric. Rarely offering a satisfying preset, and always unsatisfying to tweak.
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No updates since 2016
Certainly no PPAs for modern releases of Ubuntu.
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AWN (Avant Window Navigator)
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AWN (Avant Window Navigator)
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AWN (Avant Window Navigator)
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Not updated from developers
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Highly customizable
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Difficult to install for beginners
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Very powerful
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