Avant Window Manager

Avant Window Navgator (Awn) is a dock-like bar which sits at the bottom of the screen (in all its composited-goodness) tracking open windows. Takes MAC look in ubuntu.

Awn uses libwnck to keep a track of open windows, and behaves exactly like a normal window-list :

* Clicking an icon switches to that window, clicking again will minimise the window
* Right-clicking will bring up a menu exactly like that of what you see on the window-list, allowing you to max, min, close, resize etc the window.
* Dragging something on top of an icon will activate that window.
* Visually (and quite attractively) responds to ‘needs attention’ & ‘urgent’ events
* Can show windows from the entire viewport, or just the visible viewport.

Installing and configure avant windows manager:

1. sudo apt-get install avant-window-navigator

2. Applications -> Accessories -> Avant Window Manager

3. Will show dock on the bottom of display

4. Right click and choose Preferences

5. You can change icon look on the General, Bar Appearance, Glass Engine and Pattern Engine

6. Add new program launcher on the Launcher