środa, 29 października 2014

Install Cairo-Dock in Kali Linux


To install cairo-dock you need to do the followings:

  1. Install Cairo Dock from Kali Repo

  2. Install Cairo-dock from Cairo-docks repo
    • Add Cairo-Dock repo in Kali Linux sources.list file

    • Add GPG Keys

    • Update package list via apt-get


  3. Install Cairo-Dock and Plugins

  4. Run Cairo-Dock


Install Cairo-Dock from Kali Linux Repo


If you’ve used the official Kali Linux repository, then you can install Cairo-Dock and all it’s requirements directly from Kali Linux repository.

Use the following command to install Cairo-Dock in Kali Linux from Official Kali Linux repository:


aptitude -r install cairo-dock cairo-dock-plug-ins

This will install all cairo-dock, it’s plugins and any recommended packages. Move to Running Cairo-Dock section from there.


Install Cairo-dock from Cairo-docks repo


In case you don’t want to install Cairo-dock from Kali Linux’s official repository, you can always add the repository for Cairo-dock and install from there.


Add Cairo-Dock repo in Kali Linux

First you need to edit /etc/apt/sources.list file

vi /etc/apt/sources.list

add the following line

deb http://download.tuxfamily.org/glxdock/repository/debian stable cairo-dock

Save and exit the file


Install GPG key

wget -q http://download.tuxfamily.org/glxdock/repository/cairo-dock.gpg -O- | apt-key add -


Update package list

Update source list

apt-get update


Install Cairo-Dock and Plugins

Run the following command to install Cairo-Dock and plugins

apt-get install cairo-dock cairo-dock-plug-ins


Run Cairo-Dock


Now you can launch Cairo-dock from
Applications  —> System tools —> cairo-Dock


Conclusion


Cairo-Dock is a nice tool to have and it adds some color to your Kali Linux’s boring desktop. I like monitoring and weather applets. They also got many theme’s that you can play with.


In fact since writing this post, I’ve done some more editing and ended up having a great Desktop. I’ve used black-element theme, conky-color and cairo-dock. Wallpaper was downloaded from Wallpaperswide. What a great community! Here’s a new screenshot of this desktop


dd96c16935 Awesome Kali Linux desktop with black element theme conkycolor and cairodock 1024x819


Thanks for reading. Enjoy and share.



Install Cairo-Dock in Kali Linux
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