Avant Window Navigator - ArchWiki

# Avant Window Navigator

From ArchWiki
Jump to navigation Jump to search

Related articles

- GNOME

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

## Installation

Install the avant-window-navigatorAUR package. The awn-extras-appletsAUR package provides additional applets.

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

### 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.

## See also

- AWN on Launchpad

Categories:

- Application launchers
- Eye candy