Installing Avant Window Navigator in Gutsy

So, you've been running Ubuntu Gutsy Gibbon since released, and you're enjoying the eye candy that Compiz-Fusion brings to the table. Wobbly windows, cube desktop, smooth task switching, windows previews, Compiz-Fusion is a great start, but what if you want more eye candy? I'm going to take a look at installing Avant Window Manager on Ubuntu Gutsy 7.10 (32 bit).



So, what is the Avant Window Navigator, you ask? Avant Window Navigator is a compositing docking bar, that has multiple different plugins to show your task manager, launchers, and other useful things. You can find out more information on https://launchpad.net/awn.

One thing that you must remember, is that AWN requires a compositor (such as compiz-fusion,) to run properly. Also, you should keep in mind that AWN still has some bugs in it. I would also suggest submitting any bugs that you find through their bug tracking system, located at https://bugs.launchpad.net/awn/+bugs.

Update Your Repositories

First thing we're going to do is add the repositories to our /etc/apt/sources.list, or add them in synaptic. The repositories to add are as follows:

deb http://download.tuxfamily.org/syzygy42 gutsy avant-window-navigator
deb-src http://download.tuxfamily.org/syzygy42 gutsy avant-window-navigator

And then we're going to download the PGP key for Aptitude, add it into Aptitude, remove the downloaded key, and update Aptitude. (Sorry in advance, I had to use an image for this step because of a serendipity bug.)

And then we can go ahead and install AWN itself.

Installation

sudo apt-get install avant-window-navigator-bzr awn-core-applets-bzr

If you want to compile it yourself from the source, first install all of it's dependencies...

sudo apt-get install build-essential autotools-dev libxdamage-dev libxcomposite-dev libgnome2-common libgnome2-dev libgnome-desktop-dev libgnome-vfs-dev libgtk2.0-dev libwnck-dev libgconf2-dev libglib2.0-dev libdbus-glib-1-dev libgnomevfs2-0 libgnome-desktop-2 libgnome2-0 libwnck-common python-gtk2 python-gconf bzr gnome-common python-dev python-gtk2-dev python-cairo-dev python-gconf python-gnome2-dev gnome-icon-theme python-glade2 librsvg2-common, python-gnome2-extras

Then open a terminal where you want to build AWN at, and use the following...

bzr checkout http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~awn-core/awn/trunk avant-window-navigator
cd avant-window-navigator
./autogen.sh
make
sudo make install

Configuring and running AWN

After installing (or building) AWN, you can start it up by going to Applications -> Accessories -> AWN. Once it is running, you can right click on the bar that it opens up, and choose preferences to set all of the different things that you want AWN to handle. Have fun playing with your new compositing dock.

Have some other eye candy that you've added to your system? Leave a comment and let us know what you've used to make your desktop more slick.

Source: Ubuntu Forums


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