Docks and sub-docks may be placed at the bottom, top, left and right.

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Cairo Dock using the Coz theme

Cairo Dock with the default theme, showing the components of the shortcut applet.

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Cairo Dock using the default theme

The graphics applet and its components.

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Graphics applications applet in Cairo Dock

You can change the view of the dock and the sub-docks from the theme manager. The screenshot below shows a sub-dock using the Rainbow view.

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Weather applet in Rainbow view

Shortcut applet in Rainbow view

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Shortcut applet