Sunday, April 5, 2009

Installing Avant Window Navigator (AWN)

under "Lightweight X11 Desktop Environment" (LXDE) and Compiz with EEEbuntu.
With reference to an eeePC 900 with EEEbuntu base installed, I had some troubles in getting AWN to work nicely, due to some lack of information.
Compiz is easy to install (Ubuntu Help):
apt-get install compiz compizconfig-settings-manager
and also to start automatically, once you figured how to; edit /etc/xdg/lxsession/LXDE/config so that this line says:
window_manager=compiz

AWN is in the repositories as well:
apt-get install avant-window-navigator awn-manager
To start it automatically (after Compiz is running) edit /etc/xdg/lxsession/LXDE/autostart appending this line:
@avant-window-navigator


Now restart X by hitting ctrl-alt-bkspc.