Apple’s ‘The Dock’ in Linux Mint

Linux Mint January 22nd, 2008

Do you want to have a piece of Mac’s ‘The Dock’ in Linux Mint aside from having a cool desktop effect? If yes, then you’re on the right page. This is actually a newbies guide in installing Avant Windows Manager (AWN) in Mint. This instructions are actually for Ubuntu’s Gutsy Gibbon, but since Linux Mint has it’s foundation base with Ubuntu then it should work neatly. Here’s how.

Installing ‘The Dock’ or Avant Windows Manager (AWN) in Linux Mint

Click on the ‘Daryna‘ button > System > Terminal. On the terminal screen type this command without the quotes ‘ gksudo gedit /etc/apt/sources.list ‘ enter your password if necessary.

Then add this following line at the very bottom and save.

## Avant Window Navigator

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

Go back to the terminal window and type these commands one at a time.

  • wget http://download.tuxfamily.org/syzygy42/reacocard.asc -O- | sudo apt-key add -
  • sudo apt-get update
  • sudo apt-get upgrade
  • sudo apt-get install avant-window-navigator-bzr

You can now start AWN from Applications->Accessories->Avant Window Navigator
To add more applets, type this command ‘ sudo apt-get install awn-core-applets-bzr ‘

dock Apples The Dock in Linux Mint
Isn’t that sexy?


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  1. 1
    Aaron Leishman
    March 27th, 2008 at 1:01 am

    I followed the instructions but the dock won’t appear.

    I go to Applications->Accessories->Avant Window Navigator and a window opens and closes in a blink of an eye.

    any help would be appreciated

    Thanks,

    Aaron

  2. 2
    Pete
    April 25th, 2008 at 9:58 pm

    Hi Aaron,

    You need the Desktop Effects enabled for the AWN to function.

    System > Preferences > Appearance > Visual Effects (Normal or Extra)

    Pete.

  3. 3
    rota2903
    August 12th, 2008 at 4:53 am

    hi. i tried downloading it but it appears to be not found 404. are there any other site that offers to download the awn? i’m a totaly newbie in linux.

  4. 4
    glenn
    October 30th, 2008 at 2:52 pm

    Yep 404

  5. 5
    Arbywan
    February 22nd, 2009 at 7:44 pm

    I just got this myself!

    Resolving download.tuxfamily.org… 88.191.250.18
    Connecting to download.tuxfamily.org|88.191.250.18|:80… connected.
    HTTP request sent, awaiting response… 404 Not Found
    2009-02-22 11:42:08 ERROR 404: Not Found.

    Help!

  6. 6
    paul
    April 16th, 2009 at 5:08 am

    gahh so did i!
    anyone know how to get past the 404?

  7. 7
    samsung
    October 7th, 2009 at 2:34 pm

    If you have mint linux, all you need to do is go to package manager and search and install awn (awn manager)

  8. 8
    ronnie
    April 8th, 2010 at 1:59 pm

    is this gonna work 4 linuxmint 8 helena????

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