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Avant Window Navigator: A Great Desktop Dock With Plenty of Applets [Linux]

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http://www.makeuseof.com – One of the most helpful tools we can have on our desktops are docks. Whether they help us keep track of open windows, offer us shortcuts to common folders or applications, or even update us on the current weather, they’re extremely extensible and flexible. Among Linux users, the most recommended dock is Docky, and I can’t deny that I love it too. But Docky isn’t the only dock out there, no no no. A number of other really good docks worth checking out, and Avant Window Navigator is one of them. About AWN Avant Window Navigator — or AWN for short — is a fairly easy (General)

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launchpad.net install: avant-window-navigator awn-applets-c-extras Avant-window-navigator (Awn) is a MacOS X like panel for the GNOME Desktop written in C. In addition to launchers that can be dragged onto the bar, it features a taskbar that behaves similarly to the Mac OSX dock. The window navigator uses the composite extension for transparency and other effects.

Dock applications is really cool way to get quicker access to your installed applications, directories, or files, it’s fully customized with different desktop and window managers. you will find a lot of docks available to use with different features for extra plugins, docks applets, and themes. here will list 7 of the best docks available so far for linux desktops.

Avant Window Navigator (abbreviated AWN or Awn) is a dock-like bar for Linux, which sits on an edge of a user's screen and tracks open windows. Instead of representing open windows as buttons or segments on a bar, it uses icons to minimize screen space and add visual appeal. Avant Window Navigator was created by Neil J.

My favorite Dock Avant Window Navigator, one of the best Docks available so far, it’s fully customizable with themes, extra plugins, extra applets, also working on many window managers, and many distributions such as Ubuntu , Gentoo, Fedora, …

I was wondering if there's any ongoing development with Avant Window Navigator?

It's my favorite dock... I've tried both Docky and Cairo-Dock and while they're nice, neither completely meets my needs like AWN does. However, AWN does have a couple bugs that it seems to have had for a couple years, and it would really be a shame if no further development was done on AWN.

There are lot of Dock Apps available for GNU/Linux distributions such as Ubuntu, Linux Mint 13. Some of the most popular dock Apps are – GLX-Dock (Cairo Dock with OpenGL), Docky and AWN (Avant Window Navigator). Dock App is not just an eye candy app, it also makes lot of things much easier (such as multiple window/app management, easy shortcuts for complex and repetitive tasks etc).

After more than one year as an Awn (Avant Window Navigator) user, I still strongly believe that this amazing dock is very stable and can be included in today's popular Linux distributions, such as Ubuntu, Fedora, Mandriva or openSUSE. It is my pleasure to announce today the stable release of Avant Window Navigator 0.4.0, after more than a yea...

I was switching from Ubuntu Hardy Heron to Mandriva 2010. Now I want to install the MAC OS like dock, Avant Window navigator. Its very easy to install this AWN on Mandriva 2010 as long as you already activate the official repository on your Mandriva 2010.

My newfound favorite computing app is the desktop dock. Over the last few weeks, I freed myself of dependence on the desktop icon to find and launch the programs I use every day. My search for the ideal docking app came to a halt with Avant Window Navigator, also known as "AWN." I was ready to settle down with GNOME Do and its handy Docky option.