How do I install cairo-dock on opensuse?

I need help installing cairo dock, I have followed the installation guide on the website but can’t seem to get it to work, I get an error saying I need libpangox, but can’t find that library on the repos. Any help would be great. I don’t really know what I’m doing with this so sorry if I’m a bit stupid. I’m on opensuse tumbleweed btw.

Here is the error message when I run “cairo-dock”: cairo-dock: error while loading shared libraries: libpangox-1.0.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

Which Desktop Environment are you using - KDE? GNOME? Xfce?
Something else ?

The problem is that cairo-dock is unmaintained and dead since 8 years (last release is from 2015). That means it is incompatible with modern and actual operating systems and depends on no longer available libraries like libpangox-1.0.so.0
So trying to install it on openSUSE is pointless.

Which are the alternatives of cairo-dock in openSUSE?

cairo-dock was never distributed within openSUSE. Packman had it once but removed it years ago. A simple google-search shows some alternatives for openSUSE:

latte-dock (OSS and KDE-Extra)
plank (OSS)
docky (Gnome Apps)
tint2 (OSS)

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I use Latte … and have for a long time (as with TW :+1:) … native for KDE Plasma, dependable, pleasing, easy to use, lots of configuration options (maybe too many :slightly_smiling_face:).

Latte Dock has unfortunately been abandoned by its developer

Old news

However … it’s still worth it for the features and customizability … for me, it works on all the disparate desktops and laptops around here.

And it’s in the repo …

latte2

No recommendation?

Plank used to work well in tumbleweed. I haven’t use it for a while. It’s pretty, simple and easy to configure.

I’m using KDEplasma.

Yeah, I use Latte-dock, it’s only I wanted the reflection and I couldn’t find how to do that on latte-dock.

On the cairo-dock website it shows a method that seems to work, at least I installed it successfully, just can’t run.
I’ll try these out though thanks.

Ah thanks, guess I’ll look for an alternative :+1: