Comments on: A Mac like dock for your Linux desktop

By: correctname

correctname — Sat, 05 Jul 2008 14:56:55 +0000

First thing is to make sure you have desktop effects running. Open up System>Preferences>Appearance. then in the Visual Effects tab, choose ‘normal’ or ‘extra’
Then
To install the basic dock just install the avant-window-navigator package using synaptic package manager.
Or
For a fully functional dock including all the additional applets you should install AWN from the testing repository, assuming you’re using Ubuntu Hardy, just add this line to your software sources in the third-party software section:

deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/awn-testing/ubuntu hardy main

then install the following 2 packages:
avant-window-navigator-trunk
awn-extras-applets-trunk

Once installed, you can start it by going to Accessories>Avant Window Navigator

To change the options for AWN go to System>Preferences>Awn manager

Hope this helps. If you’re not familiar with Synaptic yet or not sure how to add additional software repositories then a read through this should help….SynapticHowTo

For more detailed instructions or to install AWN on another distribution go to the AWN wiki here

By: FZ

FZ — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 21:28:49 +0000

I would like to install it on my Ubuntu. Where can I download it from?
Thank you!

By: correctname

correctname — Sat, 15 Mar 2008 14:07:31 +0000

Yes. I had not tried it with KDE when I wrote the article, but I’ve tried it since and it worked. I didn’t try all the applets though, so I can’t be sure whether it works 100%.

By: Dan

Dan — Sat, 15 Mar 2008 13:29:20 +0000

Does this work with kde ?

By: correctname

correctname — Wed, 12 Dec 2007 02:50:22 +0000

Why not just use your mac for mac stuff and linux for linux?

I love the Mac interface but prefer Linux app’s like Amarok, F-spot, Digikam etc. Besides that, have you seen Leopards new ‘Spaces’ feature anywhere before?

By: cowsbythefence

cowsbythefence — Wed, 12 Dec 2007 00:27:42 +0000

Wow I like! I’ve been running GDesklets for my Mac like stuff..awn looks absolutely amazing in comparison

By: 2.0 Weblogs

2.0 Weblogs — Wed, 12 Dec 2007 00:11:51 +0000

Why not just use your mac for mac stuff and linux for linux?

By: correctname

correctname — Tue, 11 Dec 2007 20:54:44 +0000

The Last.fm player comes included with the core applets package, check the installation guide here to ensure you have the core applets installed. To enable the Last.fm applet, in Gnome go to System>Preferences>Awn Manager, and add the Last.fm applet from the list of available applets. Installation instructions for the Banshee plugin are here. This allows you to control Banshee by right-clicking the dock icon.

By: superbnerb

superbnerb — Tue, 11 Dec 2007 18:21:06 +0000

Where did you get that wonderful last.fm player?

if you could post a link to that app, or even better, a link to a banshee ‘mini’ plugin. That is the one thing that windows got right, the mini mode of the windows media player.

Would love to control my songs from the awn.