This is simdock, an eye-candy deskbar for Linux.
- Starters in the dock keep track of launched applications, enabling minimizing, raising and cycling through its windows
- Transparent background without compositing, which still gets automatically updated when the background changes
- Fluid animations โ icons get bigger when hovered and shortly transparent when clicked
- Configurable size and icon placement
You can use simdock without install by downloading the continous AppImage build from the release page. Then make it executable
chmod +x ~/Downloads/Simdock*.AppImage
and start it
~/Downloads/Simdock*.AppImage
On launchpad, there is a PPA with daily builds. Add it with
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:onli/simdock
and install simdock
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install simdock
Use the overlay with layman
layman -o https://raw.github.com/onli/overlay/master/repositories.xml -f -a onli
and install with emerge
emerge simdock
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Install dependencies. Under Ubuntu:
sudo apt-get install pkg-config libglib2.0-dev libgconf2-dev libgtk2.0-dev libwnck-dev libwxgtk3.0-dev libxcb1-dev libxcb-ewmh-dev xcb-proto librsvg2-dev
-
Type
make
to compile -
Type
sudo make install
to install
Start with simdock