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.
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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 | |
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.