Curved AWN dock.
Avant Window Navigator (awn) is an OSX style dock for linux.
While the basic version look pretty much the same. There is now a way to easily make a curved dock.
1. Install AWN
If you have already installed AWN, completely remove it by entering this in the terminal.
sudo rm -f /usr/local/bin/awn*sudo rm -f /usr/local/bin/avant*sudo rm -rf /usr/local/lib/awnsudo rm -f /usr/local/share/locale/*/LC_MESSAGES/avant-window-navigator.mosudo rm -f /usr/local/share/applications/avant*sudo rm -f /usr/local/share/applications/awn*sudo rm -rf /usr/local/share/avant-window-navigatorsudo rm -f /usr/local/lib/libawn*sudo rm -rf /usr/local/include/libawn sudo rm -f /usr/local/lib/libawn* sudo rm -f /usr/local/lib/pkgconfig/awn.pc sudo rm -rf /usr/local/share/awn-core-applets sudo rm -rf /usr/local/lib/python2.5/site-packages/awn/
Install bazaar, gnome-common and M4. (this can be done in synaptic to)
sudo apt-get install bzr m4 gnome-common
Then, Install awn curves:
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-devbzr co http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~awn-curves-team/awn/awn-curves awn-curves
Then past this.
cd awn-curves./autogen.sh && makesudo make install
stay in the awn-curves folder throughout all the instructions I give!
make sure you have your AWN repositories:
press ALT+F2,
type:
gksudo “gedit /etc/apt/sources.list“
Press Run then add the corresponding code at the bottom:
deb http://download.tuxfamily.org/syzygy42 gutsy avant-window-navigatordeb-src http://download.tuxfamily.org/syzygy42 gutsy avant-window-navigator
* that was only for gutsy, if you use feisty, replace all the “gutsy” by “feisty”!
Save and close that, then resume work in the terminal.
wget http://download.tuxfamily.org/syzygy42/reacocard.ascsudo apt-key add reacocard.ascrm reacocard.asc sudo apt-get update
The last thing to do is:
sudo apt-get install avant-window-navigator-bzr awn-core-applets-bzr
Q: How do I add awn-to my start-up???
A: System > prefernces > sessions
then add this command:
Code:
avant-window-navigator
thats it, bro
Any chance for link to wallpaper? (:
@ Hadret
Sorry, I can’t help you with that.
Normally I make all my screenshots myself, but this one was borrowed from another user.
I suggest you check out
interfacelift.com
They have loads of wallpapers like that.
Thanks! (:
I gave it a shot on my ubuntu system some time ago but uninstalled it to save my system resources. It was pretty cool though.
Is this How-to current for Ubuntu 8.10 Intrepid Ibex?
It was written for Ubuntu 7.10, I don’t know if this still works.
You could give it a try, it can’t do anything harmful to your system.
If it doesn’t work, you can remove it with
sudo apt-get autoremove avant-windows-navigator –purge
(that is – - purge with a space between the – )
Oh sorry, it’s “avant-window-navigator”.
for 8.10 check out this tutorial from Tombuntu
http://tombuntu.com/index.php/2008/11/11/installing-and-setting-up-avant-window-navigator/