How to make friends with Skype and AWN

Real boys do not use graphical shells, they don’t like it when everything “just works”, they send messages using smbclient and may not read further ;-)

Problem

There is a wonderful window navigator AWN , which makes Linux a little more like a makos. Standardly, it is installed from the debian package awn-manager or avant-window-navigator. And further shows beautiful icons on a beautiful dock.

System - Ubuntu 9.10. All the applets for standard gnome panels (at least, which I use) have analogues. And it is logical not to use the “top panel” at all. However, but on it are standardly the icons of network availability, sound control, and systray, where, in particular, Skype collapses. Thus, if you install awn out of the box and hide this panel, then no one will know about new messages, and you’ll have to show a panel to expand Skype.

Those. you have to keep constantly unnecessary "top" panel.

Decision

1. Understand that AWN has a system notification area applet.
2. Understand that it is not installed.
3. Understand that GNOME has a single registration mechanism for this area.
4. Understand that for the standard panel there is also such an applet.
5. Remove the standard applet (via the context menu), add awn'ovsky.
6. Refresh session.

I recommend using AWN version 3.9 (trunk). How to install, described in the instructions