| Avant Window Navigator | |
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 A Screenshot of a development version of AWN | |
| Original author | Neil J. Patel |
| Developer | Awn-core Team |
| Stable release | 0.4.2 / November 27, 2013; 12 years ago (2013-11-27) |
| Written in | C,Python,Vala |
| Platform | Unix-like |
| Available in | English |
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| Website | https://github.com/p12tic/awn |
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Avant Window Navigator (abbreviatedAWN orAwn) is adock-like bar forLinux, which sits on an edge of a user's screen and tracks open windows. Instead of representing open windows as buttons or segments on a bar, it uses largeicons on a translucent background to increase readability and add visual appeal. The program was created by Neil J. Patel.
Both the appearance and functionality of Avant Window Navigator may be customized, andplugins andapplets are available, such as to display the progress of a download inMozilla Firefox or to control amusic player likeRhythmbox.[1] The plugins use theD-BusIPC system, and applets can be written inC,Python orVala. A sister project, AWN Extras, is a collection of community-contributed applets and plugins. Releases are usually kept in sync with AWN.
One of the major requirements to run older versions of Avant Window Navigator is acompositing window manager. At least version 0.4.0-2 in theDebian repos has eitherMetacity,xcompmgr,Compiz,xfwm4,KWin orMutter as a dependency.[2]
Therefore, the user was required to install a compositor,[3] which could tax performance on low-end systems. Some alternatives were to use a lightweightdesktop environment such asXfce, which has a compositing manager since version 4.2.0, or to enable compositing in Metacity when usingGNOME.[4] However, support for non-composited environments is available in version 0.4.0.[5][6]
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