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Hi HN,

I’ve been having a lot of fun building Docking, an open-source dock for Linux written in Python with GTK 3 and Cairo. It includes an extensible applet system, 38 built-in applets, 12 themes, multi-monitor support, auto-hide, and works across several Linux/X11 desktop environments.

It also has prebuilt releases for x64 and arm64 across multiple package formats: AppImage, .deb, RPM, Flatpak, Snap, Arch, and Nix outputs.

GitHub: https://github.com/edumucelli/docking

Feedback is very welcome!

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heuh https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=docking

Words have many meanings and we somehow don't change old ones because someone used them in dirty context.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Docking_and_berthing_of_spacec...

Haha, I am not native speaker as you can imagine. The idea here is more of a space ship/rocket docking into a base.

Hehe, yeah i understand, just something that popped up. Great project!

X11 only is a bit of a bummer although I’m not surprised - i don’t think i’d target Wayland either for this sort of thing if i was a happy x11 user already.

I'm actually curious about that - this seems like something that should at least partially work through XWayland? Blindly speculating, it might not work against existing windows, but I'd expect things like system monitors and launching apps to not care.

To be honest, I am not sure, I will be working on those as the next big thing for Docking. I am uncertain of how much I can achieve on Wayland. Looking forward.

Tested today, most of it works using XWayland. Some applets won't like windows killer as it uses xkill, also some feature like window preview as Wayland do not give access to other screens, but also features like having the dock follow the mouse across different monitors.

Yes, indeed. The next I will be working with is Wayland. Let's see how hard that will be. I am sure there will be applet that I will never be able to port like Window killer that users xkill, etc.

very cool project with a very unfortunate name

The rocket docking into a base was the meaning, regardless of the other usages :-)

Error installing from .deb: Dependency is not satisfiable: python 3.10. So I have to downgrade from 3.12 to use this?

Thanks, I will fix that one and get back to you

I have a tentative fix on the way https://github.com/edumucelli/docking/commit/7ddcdeae42e8277... -- the deb file will be arch specific now as well

You have a customizable bar in your DE, put everything you need into that bar, why a second bar?

I do not have a bar that I can put everything I want, so I created it, as many other developers have created a dock bar, just like MacOS has its own, etc, et.

MacOS has a dock because the menu bar it has is useless. Very few Windows users install this kind of dock app because the taskbar is NOT useless. On Linux, most DEs allow you to customize the bar. I use quickshell and gnome, but kde or polybar same.

People make software to bloat other people's computers, that's true

lollll

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