Simdock

This is simdock, an eye-candy deskbar for Linux.

Features

• 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 – icons get bigger when hovered and shortly transparent when clicked
• Configurable size and icon placement

Install

Ubuntu

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

Gentoo/Funtoo

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

Manually

1. Install dependencies. Under Ubuntu:

    sudo apt-get install pkg-config libglib2.0-dev libgconf2-dev libgtk2.0-dev libwnck-dev libwxgtk2.8-dev libxcb1-dev libxcb-ewmh-dev xcb-proto
   

2. Type make to compile

3. Type sudo make install to install

Start

Start with simdock

Original

http://sourceforge.net/projects/simdock