Cairo Dock

[excollier]

I hope I'm posting in the right section here.
I would like to try out Cairo Dock, looks pretty snazzy, and I could use it to lure a few friends away from Windows into Linux Mint. (OOOH, shiny....)
I have Mint 13 Cinnamon on my laptop, would I be right in assuming that to use Cairo Dock I would need to be booting into Gnome desktop first and install it there?
All help gratefully accepted.

[jungle_boy]

Open a terminal and;

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sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install cairo-dock

And done.

It is not necessary to boot into gnome, cairo-dock runs in cinnamon too.

[excollier]

Thanks, I'll give it a go.

[excollier]

If I install Cairo-Dock, can I choose just to use it with Gnome? I don't want to lose my Cinnamon set up. If that is going to be lost or upset, then I'll do without Cairo.

[jungle_boy]

Of course.

[hhead]

I've installed it OK but it hangs when I try to delete som of the default apps on it. Any solution to this....? Problem solved although shutdown from cairo is very slow...

[excollier]

Quick update and finally.....I downloaded and installed Cairo Dock on Gnome desktop. It's impressive. Now I have two impressive desktops including Cinnamon, I like both.
Linux Mint was a great choice to move from Windows.
'nuff said.

[jungle_boy]

Linux Mint was a great choice to move from Windows.
'nuff said.

Welcome to the world of Linux!

Welcome to freedom!

[excollier]

Indeed! Thanks.