GLX Dock (Cairo Dock) 2.2 Released With A Panel Mode, Multiple Instances Support, MeMenu, Messaging Menu And Lots More

Cairo Dock - also known as GLX Dock - version 2.2 has finally been released! We already posted about most of the new stuff in GLX Dock 2.2 when we wrote about the beta version, but here's a small recap:

• panel mode
• 2 new autohide modes (hide whenever the dock overlaps the active window" and "hide whenever the dock overlaps any window")
• icons can be displayed when the dock is hidden
• integration of the Me Menu and Messaging Menu applets
• run multiple instances of Glx Dock
• better support for old graphic cards
• new default theme to match the Ubuntu Ambiance / Radiance themes and new wallpaper
• other small enhancements: all the themes have been polished, you can now manage tasks in the Clock's calendar, use tiny URLs in the Drop-and-Share applet, the Dustbin applet handles all the drives and many more.

Here is another screenshot, provided by Fabounet in which you can see the panel mode / multiple GLX Dock instances, the MeMenu and Messaging Menu:

And of course, a video with Cairo Dock 2.2 in action (Cairo Dock in the video is the beta version but there haven't been many changes since then):

(make sure you watch it in HD - it plays in HTML5 if you've enabled it on YouTube!)

Install Glx Dock (Cairo Dock) 2.2 in Ubuntu

To install Glx Dock in Ubuntu, open a terminal and paste the following commands:

sudo -v
echo "deb http://repository.glx-dock.org/ubuntu $(lsb_release -sc) cairo-dock" | sudo tee -a /etc/apt/sources.list
wget -q http://repository.glx-dock.org/cairo-dock.gpg -O- | sudo apt-key add -
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install cairo-dock cairo-dock-plug-ins

Glx Dock will also be available in Ubuntu 10.10 official repositories soon (currently it's RC1).

Thanks to Fabounet for the second screenshot!