Amazing New Features of Lucido Avant Window Navigator

Posted by Mani On June - 24 - 2010

90px Awn logo Amazing New Features of Lucido Avant Window NavigatorAvant Window Navigator(AWN) is still the best dock available for Linux. This application adds a charming flavour to your desktop environment on Linux. Lucido has been merged into Avant Window Navigator and recently new 3D style was introduced in Lucido AWN. The new release has been put on repositories and you can grab it just by following the instructions at the end of this post.

In new AWN you can drag the applets to change their positions. There’s a new slick workspace switcher applet and most important update is that, there is an applet for notification daemon. Here are some new features and applets previews:

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How to Install Lucido AWN in Ubuntu from Repositories

Copy the following commands to linux terminal to grab the latest AWN.

If you have any previous installation of AWN, remove it from this command:

sudo apt-get remove avant-window-navigator avant-window-navigator-data awn-settings awn-applets-c-core libawn1 vala-awn && sudo apt-get autoremove

Add PPA repository

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:albyrock87/lucidoppa && sudo apt-get update

Install the new release

sudo apt-get install avant-window-navigator-trunk awn-applets-c-core-trunk awn-applets-c-extras-trunk awn-applets-python-core-trunk awn-applets-python-extras-trunk

What are your views about Lucido AWN? Let us know.

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5 Responses to “Amazing New Features of Lucido Avant Window Navigator”

  1. well written blog. Im glad that I could find more info on this. thanks

  2. nm says:

    Package not found “avant-window-manager-trunk”. The “new” Avant wouldn’t install.

  3. oNE says:

    Package awn-applets-c-core-trunk is not available …
    What should I do … ???

  4. wewa says:

    Cannot install:

    helen@linuxmint ~ $ sudo apt-get install avant-window-navigator-trunk awn-applets-c-core-trunk awn-applets-c-extras-trunk awn-applets-python-core-trunk awn-applets-python-extras-trunk

    Reading package lists… Done
    Building dependency tree
    Reading state information… Done
    Package awn-applets-c-core-trunk is not available, but is referred to by another package.
    This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or
    is only available from another source

    Package awn-applets-python-core-trunk is not available, but is referred to by another package.
    This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or
    is only available from another source

    Package awn-applets-c-extras-trunk is not available, but is referred to by another package.
    This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or
    is only available from another source

    Package awn-applets-python-extras-trunk is not available, but is referred to by another package.
    This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or
    is only available from another source

    E: Package ‘awn-applets-c-core-trunk’ has no installation candidate
    E: Package ‘awn-applets-c-extras-trunk’ has no installation candidate
    E: Package ‘awn-applets-python-core-trunk’ has no installation candidate
    E: Package ‘awn-applets-python-extras-trunk’ has no installation candidate
    helen@linuxmint ~ $

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