Avant Window Navigator (Awn) Avant Window Navigator is a dock-like bar which sits at the bottom of the screen. It has support for launchers, task lists, and third party applets. This requires libgtop, libdesktop-agnostic, GConf, ORBit2, pyxdg, and bzr. In order to handle transparencies that this application makes use of, you MUST use a composite desktop manager and, of course, enable compositing. Both KDE and XFCE from Slackware distro are composite capable.