Avant Window Navigator (Awn) is a dock-like bar which sits at the bottom of the screen. It has support for launchers, task lists, and third party applets. The official applet and plugin repository is in a separate project, awn-extras <https:/
The Awn project is the development of the 'dock', avant-window-
Download/Install
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Please see our comprehensive installation guide on our wiki:
http://
Support
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Need some help? There are various support channels for Awn:
1. Read our wiki: http://
2. You can ask a question on launchpad by going to the 'Answers' tab
3. Navigate to our excellent forums: http://
4. Join our IRC channel #awn on Freenode
Bugs & Feature Requests
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Please report bugs related to the Awn dock itself in launchpad using the 'Bugs' tab, and feature requests should go in 'Blueprints' (you can also create a bug if you also have a patch for it :-))
Bugs related to specific applets should be filed via the 'Bugs' tab in the awn-extras project <https:/
Developers
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If you would like to become involved in Awn, you can start off with fixing some bugs :-), or if you want to do something crazy, feel free to branch it and do your development there. Be sure to create a blueprint detailing your idea, and attach your branch to it!
If you would like to develop applets or plugins for Awn, please see the awn-extras <https:/
There is a planet where several dock and applet developers' weblogs are aggregated: http://
Project information
- Part of:
- Avant Window Navigator Project
- Maintainer:
- Awn-core
- Driver:
- Not yet selected Driver help
- Development focus:
- Programming Languages:
- C, Vala, Python
- Licenses:
- GNU GPL v2, GNU LGPL v2.1
View full history Series and milestones
Awn 0.4 series is the current focus of development
All FAQs FAQs for Awn
All bugs Latest bugs reported
Reported on 2012-02-16 Bug #920433: awn ignores monitor_align
Reported on 2012-01-23 Bug #918097: intellihide has stopped working (never hides)
Reported on 2012-01-18 Bug #914701: invisible top margin misleads window snapping
Reported on 2012-01-11 Bug #908376: gedit is shown with eclipse's icon on awn
Reported on 2011-12-24
More contributors Top contributors
All packages Packages in Distributions
Version 0.4.0-2 uploaded on 2010-06-24 “avant-window-navigator†source package in Sid
Version 0.4.1~bzr830-2 uploaded on 2011-10-28 “avant-window-navigator†source package in Precise
Version 0.4.1~bzr830-2ubuntu1 uploaded on 2011-12-17 “avant-window-navigator†source package in Oneiric
Version 0.4.1~bzr822-0ubuntu4 uploaded on 2011-09-01 “avant-window-navigator†source package in Natty
Version 0.4.1~bzr822-0ubuntu3 uploaded on 2011-04-08
All questions Latest questions
Posted on 2011-12-26 Where can I find the source code for the indicator-applet plugin?
Posted on 2011-11-27 Local language (partially) lost in AWN after replacing OOo by LibreOffice
Posted on 2011-10-29 How to add links/short cuts to the dock?
Posted on 2011-09-23 When adding a dock, no dock appears
Posted on 2011-09-13
All blueprints Latest blueprints
Registered on 2011-10-29 Hooking taskmanager icons to running processes
Registered on 2011-10-03 Stock Ticker shows realtime price from Google finance
Registered on 2011-09-03 Running application icon transparency
Registered on 2011-08-08 An AWN version of a 'tea timer'
Registered on 2011-06-01

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