Plank with ‘Numix’ theme (and Corebird with a GTK bug)
Plenty of peopleusethe desktop dock Plank on theirlinux desktop ― and for good reason.Related: How To Add an Awesome Dock To Your Ubuntu Desktop
Plank is a nimble, customisable desktop dock for Linux desktops.
It supports Unity quick lists, app badging (aka ‘unread counts’), and hover effects;it supports a small set of of “dockets”, and lets you easily pin and rearrange dock items without needing to edit a config file.
It’s also very themeable .
3 Stylish Plank ThemesGithub user Ken Harkey has uploaded a set of 3Plank themes to the code-sharing side, and when I spotted them I couldn’t resist giving them a quick pimp n’ promo here:
Anti-shade:
Shade:
Paperterial:
Download These 3 Plank Dock Themes
You can grab the three themes pictured above from Github:
Download Ken Harkey’s Plank Themes
Download the .zip to your home folder andextract it using your preferred tool.
Enter the extracted folder and copy the three theme folders named ‘ anti-shade ‘, ‘ shade ‘, and ‘ paperterial ‘.
Go to your Home folder and press Ctrl + H to toggle onhidden folders. Click though tothe directory .local/share/plank/themes and paste the folders you copied earlier in to this directory.
That’s it! Hurrah! All that’s left is to try them out.
Right-click on an empty area of your Plank dock, select ‘Preferences’, and selectthe theme you want to use.