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Avant Window Navigator (Awn) is a dock-like bar

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.

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How can Docky, AWN, Cairo Dock and Unity be compared?

It would be very nice to see a comparison between features, icons and usability.
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Is Avant Window Navigator Available For Ubuntu 14.04?

I want to install avant-window-navigator on Ubuntu 14.04. I tried to install by following command: sudo add-apt-repository ppa:awn-testing/ppa sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install avant-window-navigator But sudo apt-get update getting Error: W:…
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How can I install avant window navigator in 12.10?

Installing the ubuntu 11.10 packages works.I can't compile awn on ubuntu 12.10. And i can't install it with the software-center but the program is listed on it. It isn't like awn depends to 100 % on vala, so all non vala written parts of awn schould…
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Can I forbid a particular application to display pop-up notifications?

I have installed AWN with a weather applet and it annoys me by complaining that it can't connect to the Internet (saying "network error in weather") frequently. Despite the fact my Internet connection is ok and the applet works just fine actually…
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Is it possible to disable launcher grouping in unity?

Possible Duplicate: How to disable the grouping of windows on the launcher? I am almost used to working with Unity but the launcher grouping is really bugging me. I just want to be able to open a specific window with ONE click. Currently all…
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Synaptic opens with "starting without Administrative privileges

When I try to open Synaptic from the AWN Cardapio applet menu it gives me the 'starting without administrative privileges' message and then I can't install anything. I can run sudo synaptic and it works fine, but how can I get it to just prompt me…
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AWN displaying window icons even when Display Launchers Only selected

I'm using AWN with the DockbarX applet.I have Display Launchers Only checked in the awn dock properties, but I'm still getting window icons displaying for certain apps when they're open. Any ideas? Here's a screenshot, note the Firefox icon at the…
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AWN multiple docks, with different settings

I am able to add a dock in the preferences of the dock I use now (Avant window navigator), but the problem is that the "add new dock" button creates a copy, and if I change something on one dock, then the same exact thing happens to the other…
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Different docks on different workspaces, or configure awn to behave differently on different workspaces

I would like to have different settings for the dock behavior for different workspaces, or more likely i would like the dock that i use now , awn (Avant window navigator) to show up in just 3 of the four workspaces i have. So the question is : can i…
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Broken Packages after installing AWN Lucido from official PPA

After Downloading AWN Lucido Build the packages containing the AWN Applets won't install resulting in broken packages, is there a way to fix this mess? EDIT:Well, the output is in Spanish and SOMEHOW the broken packages are no longer there now it…
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DockbarX/AWN Preview is empty

I'm using the following components in Xubuntu 11.10: AWN (0.4.1) DockbarX (0.48) awn-applet-dockbarx (0.48) I activated the "DockbarX previews" in the "DockbarX Preferences". However the previews are always empty. This means that the space which is…
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How can I make AWN-only desktop session with gnome3?

Is there any way to use AWN as my only panel with gnome3/shell/unity installed without breaking the desktop?? I tried this a wee while ago by changing the panel in the sessions to AWN and it completely killed my desktop.
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How to make indicator applet work on AWN?

Unfortunately Avant Window Navigator's indicator applet doesn't work in 11.10. Is there any workarounds?
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Stop Distribution Upgrade Message Globally

So I am an IT consultant and a business i do work for wanted to make the switch to Linux on about 25 machines since their software is web based and Linux is more secure. I set them up with a custom Ubuntu Remix Replacing Unity with an AWN panel on…
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AWN Themes and applets

I would like to install more applets and themes to AWN, since it's so hard to configure/personalize. Does anybody know where I could find this resources?
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