# Avant Window Navigator

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Avant Window Navigator (AWN) is a lightweight dock written in C. It has support for launchers, task lists and third party applets.

## Installation

- Avant Window Navigator can be installed with the package avant-window-navigatorAUR, available in the Arch User Repository.
- To get additional applets to use with AWN you will need to install awn-extras-appletsAUR.

### Additional dependencies

The most of the applets require some additional packages, which are listed in optdepends. Make sure that you installed them before enable an applet:

Applet name | Dependencies | Optional dependences
animal-farm | fortune-mod |
battery | upower |
comics | python2-feedparser python2-rsvg |
cairo-clock | python2-rsvg | python2-dateutil
calendar | python2-dateutil python2-gdata python2-vobjectAUR |
cpufreq | gnome-applets |
dialect | python-xklavierAUR[broken link: archived in aur-mirror] |
feeds | python2-feedparser |
hardware-sensors | python2-rsvg | hddtemp lm_sensors
media-control |  | banshee
media-player | gstreamer0.10-python |
mail | python2-feedparser |
slickswitcher | python2-wnck | python2-gconf
stacks | python2-libgnome python2-gnomedesktop |
thinkhdaps |  | python2-pyinotify
tomboy-applet | tomboy |
volume-control | gstreamer0.10-python |

### Compositing

To fully utilize AWN and it's themes, you will need a composite manager like Compiz, Xcompmgr or Cairo Compmgr installed and configured correctly. If you are running AWN in a desktop environment like GNOME, Xfce or KDE, simply enable the composite manager or the desktop effects in the system settings. The composite option in X is enabled by default.

## Usage

Run Awn in the background:

    $ avant-window-navigator &

To launch AWN at startup, check Start Awn automatically option in Dock Preferences dialog (see below), or add the following command to the autostart file: `avant-window-navigator --startup &`

## Configuration

To configure AWN applets, themes and general settings, run:

    $ awn-settings

or right-click the dock and go to Dock Preferences.

## Tips and tricks

### External applets

#### DockbarX

You may want to try DockbarX, a task manager applet with advanced behaviour configuration and support for window previews. It is available from the AUR: dockbarxAUR.

## See also

- AWN on Launchpad

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- Application launchers
- Eye candy

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