cairo-dock - A dock to launch your programs easily.

       Most of the Cairo-Dock project was written by FabriceRey (fabounet) <fabounet@glx-dock.org>.

       The Cairo-DockTeam is currently formed by Fabounet (Fabrice Rey) and Matttbe (Matthieu Baerts).
       With the help of EduardoMucelli for our third-party applets.

       Thanks to our former developers: Mav (Yann Sladek), Tofe (Christophe Chapuis),  Nochka85  (Yann  Dulieu),
       ChanGFu  (Rémy Robertson), ParadoxxxZero (Florian Mounier), Necropotame (Adrien Pilleboue), Rom1 (Romain
       Perol), Ctaf , Augur and SQP as well as numerous beta  testers  and  contributors:  lylambda,  taiebot65,
       Franksuse64, ppmt, etc.  see the 'About' menu in the dock and this web page.
               http://glx-dock.org/userlist_messages.php

       Don't hesitate to contribute to this project ;)
       Please have a look at this wiki page:
               http://glx-dock.org/ww_page.php?p=How%20to%20help%20us

       This  manual page was started by Julien Lavergne <julien.lavergne@gmail.com>, for the Debian project (but
       may be used by others).
       Updated by Matthieu Baerts (matttbe) <matttbe@gmail.com>.

       Your bug is maybe a recurrentproblem (black background, window at startup (use -c or -o),  problem  with
       OpenGL, etc.). Please go to:
               http://www.glx-dock.org/ww_page.php?p=Recurrents%20problems

       For any other bugs, you can post them on Cairo-Dock forum:
               http://forum.glx-dock.org
       or on Launchpad
               https://bugs.launchpad.net/cairo-dock

Cairo-Dock  is  a  pretty, light and convenient interface to your desktop, able to replace advantageously
       your system panel!

       It features multi-docks,taskbar,launchers and a lot of useful applets.Applets can be detached from the dock to act as desktop widgets.
       Numerous ready-to-use themes are  downloadable  in  1  click,  and  can  be  easily  customized  at  your
       convenience.
       It can use hardwareacceleration (OpenGL) to be very fast and low on CPU.

       It's  recommended  to  install the PLUG-INS package ( cairo-dock-plug-ins ) to have access to more views,
       dialogues and many plug-ins and applets.

       Some screenshots are available :
               http://pics.glx-dock.orgDevelopmentsite:
               https://launchpad.net/cairo-dock

~/.config/cairo-dock/
                 Your config files are saved in this repertory. You can use '-d' option to change it.

       /usr/share/cairo-dock/
                 Data files for Cairo-Dock.

       /usr/lib/cairo-dock/
                 Binary files for Cairo-Dock and its plug-ins.

       cairo-dock - A dock to launch your programs easily.

       You can launch Cairo-Dock with several options :
       (Note : you can use these options in one block. For example : cairo-dock -oia )

       -c,--cairo
              Force Cairo backend. Use this option if you have issue with the OpenGL mode.

       -o,--opengl
              Force OpenGL backend. Cairo-Dock with OpenGL/Hardware acceleration.

       -O,--indirect-opengl
              Use OpenGL backend with indirect rendering. There are very few case where this  option  should  be
              used.

       -A,--ask-backend
              Ask again on startup which backend to use.

       -l,--log[option]
              Log verbosity (options : debug, message, warning, critical, error - default is 'warning').
              For example : cairo-dock -l debug

       -F,--colors
              Force  to display some output messages with colors even if these messages are not displayed into a
              tty.

       -w,--wait
              Wait for N seconds before starting. This is useful if you  notice  some  problems  when  the  dock
              starts with the session.

       -a,--keep-above
              Force to keep the dock above other windows.

       -s,--no-sticky
              Don't make the dock appear on all desktops.

       -e,--env
              Force the dock to consider this environment (gnome, xfce, etc.) - it may crash the dock if not set
              properly.

       -d,--dir
              Force the dock to load the configuration in this directory  (default is ~/.config/cairo-dock).

       -m,--maintenance
              Allow to edit the config before the dock is started and show the config panel on startup.

       -x,--exclude
              Exclude a given plug-in from activating (it is still loaded though).

       -f,--safe-mode
              Don't load any plug-ins and show the theme manager on startup.

       -W,--metacity-workaround
              Work around some bugs in Metacity Window-Manager (invisible dialogs or sub-docks)

       -M,--modules-dir
              Ask  the dock to load additional modules contained in this directory (though it is unsafe for your
              dock to load unofficial 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.

       Some other options with an output in the terminal :

       -v,--version
                 Print version and quit.

       -h,--help
                 Show the help and quit.

       -C,--capuccino
                 Cairo-Dock makes anything, including coffee !

cairo-dock [options]

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                                                  Apr. 10, 2011                                    CAIRO-DOCK(1)