Avant Window Navigator
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
Install the avant-window-navigatorAUR package. The awn-extras-appletsAUR package provides additional applets.
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-rsvgAUR | |
cairo-clock | python2-rsvgAUR | python2-dateutil |
calendar | python2-dateutil python2-gdata python2-vobject | |
cpufreq | gnome-applets | |
dialect | python-xklavierAUR[broken link: archived in aur-mirror] | |
feeds | python2-feedparser | |
hardware-sensors | python2-rsvgAUR | hddtemp lm_sensors |
media-control | bansheeAUR | |
media-player | gstreamer0.10-pythonAUR | |
python2-feedparser | ||
slickswitcher | python2-wnck | python2-gconf |
stacks | python2-libgnome[broken link: package not found] python2-gnomedesktop[broken link: package not found] | |
thinkhdaps | python2-pyinotify | |
tomboy-applet | tomboy | |
volume-control | gstreamer0.10-pythonAUR |
Compositing
To fully utilize AWN and it's themes, you will need a composite manager like Compiz or Xcompmgr 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 autostart the command 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.