Cairo-Dock

Another cool dock, cairo-dock. I used it when it first came out and someone on the awn forum brought it up and reminded me about it, and although it still inst fully great it is much better and easier to use then it used to be when it first came out. It has made a ton of progress.

So here is a little video I found to show it off:



I think the video speaks for itself. You can grabs a deb to install it our the source from here.

One problem with mine is it inst in English.... did I do something wrong...

A new dock on the Block

So I have been gone the last couple of days and will probably be busting out lots of posts again, since a lot seems to always go one when I am gone. Anywho there is this new dock, like application which seems nice if you have loads of launchers. It seems that you just use your mouse scroll wheel and you just wheel the launchers around....looks like fun, will have to try it once i get settled here.

AWN SVN now has all the Patches included

If you have been following awn recently on the awn forum you would have known a ton of patches have been being created recently and its been getting very interesting. So the developer Neil came back from being MIA again and now included all those patches into the latest svn. So if you were totally confused about patches now you can just grab all the neat stuff from the latest svn!

So how to grab SVN? Open terminal and type:

svn checkout http://avant-window-navigator.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/ avant-window-navigator

Then cd into the directory you jus downloaded and run:

./autogen

make

sudo make install

So then run awn then use terminal and run:

gconf-editor

this will open up the gconf-editor then navigate to apps>avant-window-navigator>bar and you can now change the bar angle, height, extra width, and icon offset. So have fun!! And Now lets look in aww at my AWN dock:

Make AWN look like Mac Leopard Dock

This is a how to on making the AWN dock for Linux look like the mac Leopard dock which hasn't even come out yet. Now if you haven't seen the new mac dock what it is going to look like is a more three dimensional dock. It kind of looks liek icons sitting on a shelf, instead of in front of a rectangle. So first off if you do not already have the awn dock for linux get its and install it in terminal by doing this:

sudo apt-get install subversion

sudo apt-get install libgtk2.0-dev libwnck-dev libwnck-common libgconf2-dev libglib2.0-dev gnome-common

svn checkout http://avant-window-navigator.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/ avant-window-navigator

that will get you the source but before you compile it you need to get the patch which will make it look like the new mac dock.

First go to this link: http://pastebin.ubuntu-nl.org/27643/ and copy the text found there into an empty file and make it executable. Then name that file: diff.patch

Next we are going to put that file into the avant-window-navigator directory that the source is in. Then cd to that directory in terminal. Then run this command: sudo patch -p1 <>

Once that is done the patch has been applied and it is now time to compile awn. Follow these commands from in the avant-window-navigator directory:

./autogen.sh

make

sudo make install

Now awn is installed and you can run it. But now we need to change some settings to get this to look like the mac dock. So open a new terminal and type the command: gconf-editor

Then navigate to:

apps>avant-window-navigator>bar

then edit the bar angle and change it to 45

now restart awn and it is amazing looking!!!