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Rainmeter VS Cairo-Dock

Compare Rainmeter VS Cairo-Dock and see what are their differences

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Rainmeter logo Rainmeter

Rainmeter is a desktop customization platform.

Cairo-Dock logo Cairo-Dock

Cairo-Dock / GLX-Dock 3. 4 is now available. Cairo-Dock 3. 4 is finally released! One year after the 3.
  • Rainmeter Landing page
    Landing page //
    2021-09-16
  • Cairo-Dock Landing page
    Landing page //
    2018-09-29

Rainmeter videos

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Rainmeter - A Free and Open Source Customization Tool for Windows (Overview & Demo)

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  • Review - Rainmeter Desktop Customization Review

Cairo-Dock videos

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Cairo Dock on Linux Mint Cinnamon

Category Popularity

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Monitoring Tools
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Monitoring Tools
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App Launcher
0 0%
App Launcher
100% 100
Device Management
100 100%
Device Management
0% 0
Productivity
0 0%
Productivity
100% 100

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Reviews

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Rainmeter Reviews

5 Best Alternatives to Wallpaper Engine in 2022
Rainmeter is an open-source, free desktop customization tool for Windows. It is popular for the wide range of options it offers to its users. It has a user-friendly interface and lets you add your personal touch to the desktop wallpapers.
Source: clancarousel.com

Cairo-Dock Reviews

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Social recommendations and mentions

Based on our record, Rainmeter should be more popular than Cairo-Dock. It has been mentiond 6 times since March 2021. We are tracking product recommendations and mentions on various public social media platforms and blogs. They can help you identify which product is more popular and what people think of it.

Rainmeter mentions (6)

  • Persona 3 FEMC Rainmeter Wallpaper
    I decided, to make it easy, I'd add all the files needed into a compact Google Drive for you to Download everything needed ready made. Before you download what is inside the google drive, you need rainmeter to download this set. Source: 10 months ago
  • Rainmeter site download
    No issues here either opening rainmeter.net. As u/SaberAkiyama mentioned, the the GitHub site. Source: over 2 years ago
  • Heavily customised Windows 10
    Use Rainmeter "Mond" skin (Mond Skin; Rainmeter Site), just look up some rainmeter tutorials on youtube, it can get pretty confusing. Source: over 2 years ago
  • I would love the ability to pin widgets to the desktop - Here's my concept.
    I guess http://rainmeter.net will have to step up their game. Source: almost 3 years ago
  • [BotW] [OC] Added a bit more to my BOTW setup (thank you u/xeterios for telling me on how to add glow to the text and u/DiDgr8 for the wallpaper)
    Rainmeter.net and wallpaper engine can be found on steam for somewhere around 4-8 dollars depending where you live. Source: almost 3 years ago
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Cairo-Dock mentions (3)

  • With Latte Dock no longer being maintained, what's another good Dock to use for KDE?
    Have you tried Cario-Dock? Its not a native KDE app, but it does support KDE integration. I installed it on KDE Neon after the Latte Dock announcement. No crashes, and it has a lot of features. Source: over 1 year ago
  • Some Skeuomorphic Icons and Themes for Linux Devices
    If you like Macs, the dock program Cairo-Dock has a bunch of built in themes, including one to look like the OSX style dock with the cool reflections: https://glx-dock.org. Source: over 1 year ago
  • How can I get this type of look on a Dock?
    The closest thing you can do this is with cairo dock. It take some time, to customize it to make it look like what you see in the picture. It was a trend a decade ago, but not sure how much the package is maintained right now. For alternative you can check out docky which works pretty well with Gnome and its cousins, and if you are using KDE I better advice you to stick with latte dock. Source: about 2 years ago

What are some alternatives?

When comparing Rainmeter and Cairo-Dock, you can also consider the following products

Conky - Latest commit 262a292 on Dec 7, 2017 brndnmtthws Add missing build dep. Conky is a free, light-weight system monitor for X, that displays any kind of information on your desktop.

RocketDock - RocketDock is a Mac OS X dock clone.

Bginfo - This fully-configurable program automatically generates desktop backgrounds that include important information about the system.

DockbarX - DockbarX is a standalone dock that groups and launches applications.

Desktop Info - This little application displays system information on your desktop in a similar way to some other...

ObjectDock - ObjectDock is the most popular animated dock for Windows.

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