Avant Window Navgator (Awn) is a dock-like bar which sits at the bottom of the screen (in all its composited-goodness) tracking open windows.

Awn uses libwnck to keep a track of open windows, and behaves exactly like a normal window-list:

· Clicking an icon switches to that window, clicking again will minimise the window
· Right-clicking will bring up a menu extactly like that of what you see on the window-list, allowing you to max, min, close, resize etc the window.
· Dragging something on top of an icon will activate that window.
· Visually (and quite attractively) responds to 'needs attention' & 'urgent' events
· Can show windows from the entire viewport, or just the visible viewport.

The bar can be customised extensivley:

Choose between two 'engines':

· Glass engine. All the gradients can be changed to your tastes.
· Pattern engine. Thats right, you can now have a leopard print bar to match your underpants :).
· The border & internal border colours can be changed.
· The 'glow' (the background of an active window icon) can be changed, to be as simple or as lavish as you require.
· Choose between sharp or rounded corners.
· Choose the text & shadow colour of the window title text.

All preferences can be adjusted using the provided avant-preferences program, which provides a friendly interface to the gconf settings.


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Requirements:

· gtk+
· patched libwnck & libwnck devel

What's New in This Release: [ read full changelog ]

· Awn can be finally positioned on any edge of the screen.
· You can now pick among these styles: Flat, Edgy, 3D, Curved, Floaty.
· Expanded mode (Awn will cover whole screen width).
· Autohide was completely revamped and Awn now supports Intellihide and Window Dodge modes.
· Added possibility to change Awn's alignment - you don't have to have it centered.
· Awn tries to blend in with your theme colors by default.
· Added four beautiful themes.
· Most of the icons can be changed by simply dragging an icon file onto them.
· Basic support for environments without compositing (desktop-effects).
· Added simple Preferences applet (drag it to screen edges / different monitors to quickly change Awn settings).
· Taskmanager applet now supports grouping of windows.