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Here is an easy way to use Cairo-Dock as a shell, instead of Unity on Ubuntu Oneiric (11.10) and newer.
It will remove the top panel and the left bar.
- Log-out from your session
- Click on the small Ubuntu button just next to the password entry; it will pop up a menu with the different available sessions. There should be Ubuntu, Ubuntu2D, Cairo-dock and Cairo-Dock without effect
- Choose the Cairo-Dock session (or the one without the effects if your graphic card doesn't support them)
- Enter your password and press enter
That's all ! 
Now, the next time you'll start your PC, you will get into the cairo-dock session.
Note:
You may want to use a more complete theme than the default one:
Right-click on the dock -> Cairo-Dock -> Configure -> Theme tab and choose the Oneiric-Panel or Unity-1 theme. The first one is a theme like a Gnome2 theme with a dock and the other one is a theme that is quite similar to Unity (left dock with launchers and taskbar, top panel with several useful applets).
Note2: the first time you log into the cairo-dock session, it may take a few seconds to start. This is because Unity is being removed. The next time, it will be much faster 
Note3: Unity is not deleted, it will only not be launched, so you will not break anything. You can revert the changes by selecting the Ubuntu session during the log-in. |
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