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. This is a really nice application, not only for the eyecandy, but also for productivity. One of the things i love is that all the applications icons are available in all the workspaces, so if you are working on a workspace and click in an application that’s in an other workspace it will take you to that workspace and show the app. That’s really nice and if you add a 3d cube to that it gets even better :DI’m not actually using it as i disabled compiz-fusion cause it was eating up all my cpu when rendering windows while scrolling and eye candy is nice but it dosen’t worth that much. If you are using ubuntu you can install it like this,

Add the following lines to you /etc/apt/source.list

## AWN
deb http://download.tuxfamily.org/syzygy42 gutsy avant-window-navigator
deb-src http://download.tuxfamily.org/syzygy42 gutsy avant-window-navigator

Signature,

wget http://download.tuxfamily.org/syzygy42/reacocard.asc
sudo apt-key add reacocard.asc
rm reacocard.asc
sudo apt-get update


Now update repositories,

sudo apt-get update

And now install AWN,

sudo apt-get install avant-window-navigator-bzr awn-core-applets-bzr

If you want to start awn when ubuntu starts, do the following,

System > Preferences > Sessions

And add a new entry with the command,

avant-window-navigator

Here you can see a video on how it works,

I love this application, it’s a pity that my video card (I have an ATI X1300) sucks so hard….