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Formerly a frontend for GNOME Do (Do), and now its own application. Docky is a dock intended for use in the GNOME desktop environment.

Docky started as a frontend for GNOME Do; it retained GNOME Do's functionality of allowing the user to search for items and perform actions on them, but also allowed apps to be pinned to the dock.

The modern version of Docky is no longer based on GNOME Do, but is a full-fledged dock application in its own right for the GNOME desktop. It features application shortcuts with quicklist support, as well as a variety of widgets and themes.

Docky screenshot

(Screenshot from wiki.go-docky.com)

Docky is also the precursor to the Plank, which was rewritten in Vala instead of Mono and is used as the dock for elementary OS's Pantheon desktop environment.

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How can Docky, AWN, Cairo Dock and Unity be compared?

It would be very nice to see a comparison between features, icons and usability.
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Ubuntu: Icon sticks to cursor

My cursor ends up dragging an icon around the screen, after some time of use. I'm running Ubuntu Gnome, and I'm suggesting that it has something to do with Docky, since the icons are coming from there. Simply put, what happens is I make a tap or a…
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What is 'compositing'?

I have Compiz enabled and use the 3D desktop cube with rotation as long as various cool minimize animations. Recently when I boot the computer, Docky has been telling me to 'enable compositing'. I don't know what compositing is! Docky is working…
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Remove the Anchor icon in Docky

Can I remove the Anchor icon from my Docky dock?
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Minimize window with Docky conflicts with Unity

I'm seeing this unwanted behaviour eversince Unity came to Ubuntu. The Unity's Launcher randomly "steals" the endpoint for the minimizing animations from Docky. In other words, when I click on an icon in Docky to minimize a window, that window…
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Replace Docky's Icon by Ubuntu Icon

How can I replace Docky's standard anchor icon in the dock by Ubuntu's? It would look quite nice I think. This is how it looks right now:
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Install docky in Ubuntu 20.04

I tried to install Docky from the official repositories via apt-get but it couldn't find the packet. So I downloaded the .deb from the web and tried a manual install with gdebi and this was the output: $ sudo gdebi docky_2.2.1.1-1_all.deb Reading…
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How do I automatically restart docky after a crash?

docky crashes from time to time for me. How can I make it restart automatically after it crashed?
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Replacing Unity bar with Docky?

What I'm trying to do is disable the Unity side bar (launcher) which shows by default and is on the left and use Docky instead. I want to keep all of the rest of the features of Unity (the nice integration of application menus and the top bar for…
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"Docky needs composition enabled" message even after I enabled that, in Xubuntu

I am using Ubuntu 12.04 with Xubuntu-desktop because I need to use Xubuntu sometimes .I have installed Docky for quick access . But i am not getting it properly because of the error . details you can find in image i have uploaded . i have enabled…
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I can't uncheck "Manage Windows Without Launcher"

Please help, I can't uncheck "Manage Windows Without Launcher" of the docky.
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Can you add separators to Docky?

Is it possible to add more separators to Docky? If so, how? I've checked through the preferences window but I didn't see anything about adding separators there.
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Xfce - Docky & Thunar - Missing icon

Im using xfce in combination with docky. But when I start Thunar via the Filemanager-icon it opens (ofc) Thunar, but it has a wrong icon (on the very right) How to fix that? Normally, the file manager icon should just be highlighted after starting a…
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Docky is not showing the correct icon

Hopefully an easy one, I have just installed docky on my media center and it refuses to display the correct icon for nautilus when I have it open. Instead I get an ugly grey box. Anyone know how to fix this?
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Help with bash script for Docky

I'm going to assign this script to a keyboard shortcut so that I can toggle Autohide quickly for Docky. I'm going to make a second script that switches off Autohide again, and assign a different keyboard shortcut to that. The reason for closing…
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