How to install Cairo Dock 3.1 on Linux Mint 13

How to install Cairo Dock 3.1 on Linux Mint 13

This tutorial is going to show you How to install Cairo Dock 3.1 on Linux Mint 13. Cairo Dock is a stylish and beautiful docking system for Linux. The new version of Cairo Dock 3.1 brings a lot of changes and improvements.

Cairo Dock 3.1 change log:

Better integration of Unity: support of the Launcher API and better support of indicators

All configuration windows have been merged into a single one.

Added progress bars in several applets and in the Dbus API

The Music Player applet can control players in the systray.

Icons of the taskbar can be separated from launchers or not

The advanced mode of the configuration panel has been improved (thanks to SQP!)

Messaging Menu has been rewritten for newer versions and two new 'indicator' applets have been added:

Printers-Menu: it shows active print jobs.

To install Cairo Dock 3.1 on Linux Mint 13, use this command below

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:cairo-dock-team/ppa
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install cairo-dock cairo-dock-plug-ins