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.