Avant Window Navigator

From Gentoo Linux Wiki

[edit] Introduction

From: Launchpad Avant Window Navigator (AWN/Awn) is a dock-like navigation bar for the linux desktop that positions itself at the bottom of the screen. It can be used to keep track of open windows and behaves like a normal window list.

[edit] Installation

If you are running a stable arch and Awn has not been stabilized for it, you need to unmask it first. Issue as root:

Avant Window Navigator (gnome-extra/avant-window-navigator) supports the following USE flags:

• doc: Rebuilds the API documentation so that it is cross-referenced with other API documentation on your system, e.g., GTK+.
• gnome: Links Awn with the GNOME libraries.
• xfce: Links Awn with the Xfce libraries.
• vala: Enables support for applets written in dev-lang/vala.
• debug: Enable extra debug codepaths, like asserts and extra output. If you want to get meaningful backtraces, see http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/qa/backtraces.xml

Check the default state of USE flags and enable flags that you need and then emerge this package:

[edit] Run Avant Window Navigator

[edit] GNOME and Xfce

Find it in GNOME/Xfce menus under "Accessories" as Avant Window Navigator.

[edit] KDE

Find it in KDE menu under "Utilities" as Avant Window Navigator.

[edit] Alternative

Run the following at the command prompt:

[edit] Automatically Starting at Desktop Login

[edit] GNOME

In GNOME menu goto System -> Preferences -> Sessions and add a new entry here. Another option is to make a new file ~/.config/autostart/AWN.desktop:

[Desktop Entry]
Encoding=UTF-8
Version=0.9.4
Type=Application
Name=AWN
Comment=
Exec=/usr/bin/avant-window-navigator
StartupNotify=false
Terminal=false
Hidden=false

[edit] Xfce

In the Xfce menu, go to Settings -> Autostarted Applications and add "avant-window-navigator" to the list.

If you don't need to start the xfce4-panel, modify /etc/xdg/xfce4-session/xfce4-session.rc accordingly:

[Failsafe Session]
Count=4
Client0_Command=xfwm4
Client0_PerScreen=False
#Client1_Command=xfce4-panel
#Client1_PerScreen=False
Client2_Command=Thunar,--daemon
Client2_PerScreen=False
Client3_Command=xfdesktop
Client3_PerScreen=False

[edit] KDE

Open "Konsole" and issue the following commands: