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Spice up your Linux desktop with AWN
by Ian Dumych Feb 12th 2008 at 8:30AM
Over the past year or so, there has been an explosion of eye-candy type apps for Linux. With show stoppers such as Compiz Fusion, nerds have plenty to grin about these days.With Avant Window Navigator, you can have a beautiful dock on your system, similar to the one in Mac OS X. AWN is very themeable and customizable, with many animations and applets available. And hey, it's pretty! Unlike other dock clones, AWN is very simple and intuitive. Users can simply drag-and-drop any application short cut to the dock, just like in OSX.
AWN is a free download, and installs very easily on Ubuntu thanks to this DEB package. AWN is only available for Ubuntu, so users of other distros will need to compile it themselves.
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flowolf said 8:47AM on 2-12-2008
please! gentoo users always compile stuff themselves... ;)
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David said 9:10AM on 2-12-2008
I've got it, it's great!
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Paul Cutler said 10:21AM on 2-12-2008
Foresight Linux also includes Avant Window Navigator. Foresight 1.4 users just need to do a
sudo conary update avant-window-navigator
The upcoming Foresight Linux 2 release (currently in alpha testing) includes AWN installed (but not enabled) by default. Just go to Applications -> Accessories to run it.
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Monica said 11:30AM on 2-12-2008
Also available in Mandriva's urpmi.
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Ravi said 11:44AM on 2-12-2008
is it available in ubuntu?
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Sensai said 6:31PM on 2-12-2008
Yes, it is available in Ubuntu.
In fact, it's my favorite Linux project right now.
Anirudh said 4:45PM on 2-12-2008
I use awn dock, and it looks absolutely great, and also saves a ton of space for the bottom toolbar and has many other cool features like showing album art of the playing music in place of the music player's icon, and the picture of the person you're chatting with in pidgin.
@Ravi, yes. it's available.
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Mark Lee said 10:27PM on 2-15-2008
Hi,
I'm one of the core developers of Awn. First off, as many other people have stated, Awn is available for all Linux distributions. Several of them package binaries. We have a comprehensive installation guide (via source or binary) at our wiki: http://wiki.awn-project.org/
Additionally, the deb binary that you link to is a bit out of date. We're getting ready to release version 0.2.4 (for details on the changes, see my blog at http://blogger.malept.com/ ), and for some reason, many Awn users like to run the latest development version of the dock. We have a Launchpad PPA containing packages for both the dock and our applet repository: https://launchpad.net/~awn-testing/+archive
Thanks for getting the word out about Awn!
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