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Taufan Lubis writes about awn - http://taufanlubis.wordpress.com/2008/02/27/avant-window-navigator/

which makes me go out and find this blogpost with .deb package and then I am confused, what’s the name of the Ubuntu 7.10. Frustrated, I go search the net and wind a Ubuntu wiki page, fortunately. I find out that Edgy is 6.10 and 7.10 is Gutsy. Why the hell do I have to remember all those names?! Make it simple, it’s a 6.10 package for crying out lout.

So no good for me. Use the Source, Puke Skytalker.

There is a Google Code page announcing that “nothing to see here, move along”. So finally I get the code from a place called Launchpad.

Direct link for the “lost” people - https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/gutsy/+source/avant-window-navigator

I grabbed the source with first run and build it (with help from here), but it didn’t do much at all. The Accessories - Accessories - Avant Window Navigator didn’t do anything. So I “make uninstall” and go for nother look and find some Gutsy .deb packages. As they so nicely don’t put the installation order up there, I try-n-die them through. Here’s the order:

sudo dpkg -i libawn0_0.2.1-0ubuntu1~gutsy1_i386.deb
sudo dpkg -i libawn-dev_0.2.1-0ubuntu1~gutsy1_i386.deb
sudo dpkg -i avant-window-navigator_0.2.1-0ubuntu1~gutsy1_i386.deb

.. and it’s alive after Applications - Accessories - AWN.

It displays my currently active windows with their icons.

Overwhelmed with joy, I go ahead and install the other .deb-s also.

sudo dpkg -i awn-manager_0.2.1-0ubuntu1~gutsy1_all.deb
sudo dpkg -i python-awn_0.2.1-0ubuntu1~gutsy1_i386.deb

The manager is quite handy. I try some effects, but it’s nothing revolutionary like giving you free money for using it, making you a genius or giving you a bigger p3n1s. But it’s one of those “nice things”.