Show HN: Docking – Extensible Linux dock in Python

4/6/2026 at 8:40:59 PM

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

by proxysna

4/7/2026 at 6:49:24 AM

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...

by szszrk

4/7/2026 at 11:23:13 PM

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

by edumucelli

4/8/2026 at 12:02:14 PM

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

by proxysna

4/6/2026 at 10:46:56 PM

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.

by jitl

4/7/2026 at 11:19:14 PM

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.

by edumucelli

4/8/2026 at 1:11:11 AM

Some relatively aggressive mainstream modern distributions — such as Fedora — have already gone fully Wayland. That is a problem.

by linzhangrun

4/7/2026 at 3:38:30 AM

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.

by yjftsjthsd-h

4/7/2026 at 11:20:11 PM

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.

by edumucelli

4/6/2026 at 9:53:34 PM

very cool project with a very unfortunate name

by h1fra

4/7/2026 at 11:25:21 PM

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

by edumucelli

4/6/2026 at 10:14:44 PM

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by hahooh

4/7/2026 at 1:39:37 AM

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

by acrophiliac

4/7/2026 at 11:41:54 PM

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

by edumucelli

4/7/2026 at 11:32:30 PM

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

by edumucelli

4/7/2026 at 4:56:09 AM

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

by nsonha

4/7/2026 at 11:24:21 PM

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.

by edumucelli

4/8/2026 at 2:59:10 AM

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

by nsonha

4/6/2026 at 9:31:05 PM

lollll

by functionmouse

4/6/2026 at 9:58:40 PM

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by zephyrwhimsy