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One of the cool features of Apple’s Mac Operating system is the Dock. It is used to launch applications and also switch between running applications.

Linux communites like to adopt the good from other operating systems and there are several Docks available for Linux as well.

SUSE & OpenSUSE: "Avant Window Navigator (Awn) is a dock-like bar which sits at the bottom of the screen.

It has support for launchers, task lists, and third party applets. The dock at the bottom of the screen gives a nice apple Mac like look for your openSUSE.

There are a lot of Themes Plugins and Applets that can be added onto the dock."

ou should know that Avant Window Navigator, also known as AWN, is a dock-like bar which sits at the bottom of the screen.

It has support for launchers, task lists, and third party applets. To get a better idea about what we are talking about here, take a look at the image in the left!

Avant Window Navigator (Awn) 0.2.4 has been released. “This version of one of the most popular open source docks includes non-Gnome desktop environment support, an updated Awn Manager UI, and support for writing applets in Vala, the C#-like language for GObjects.”