Avant Windows Navigator Problem

[5h4rk]

When I open AWN, nothing happen, well, nothing that I can see. I have CF and have deleted the bottom panel.

[SkiesOfAzel]

Which version of awn do you have? Also try starting it from a terminal for more feedback .

[Ozeuss]

by CF, do you mean compiz fusion? are you sure compositing is enabled?

[5h4rk]

It's version 0.1.2

From the terminal:

chad@chad-laptop:~$ avant-window-navigator APPLET : /usr/lib/awn/applets/taskman.desktop (avant-window-navigator:7088): Wnck-WARNING **: Unhandled action type (nil) (avant-window-navigator:7088): Wnck-WARNING **: Unhandled action type (nil) (avant-window-navigator:7088): Wnck-WARNING **: Unhandled action type (nil) ... New width = 58

Yes, by CF i meant Compiz Fusion.

[SkiesOfAzel]

Your version of awn is really old , Try getting awn from bazar .
Uninstall the old version :

sudo apt-get remove avant-window*

Get the dependencies :

sudo apt-get install libgtk2.0-dev libwnck-dev libwnck-common libgconf2-dev libglib2.0-dev libgnome2-dev libgnome-desktop-2 libgnome-desktop-dev libdbus-glib-1-dev gnome-common libxcomposite-dev libxdamage-dev python-gnome2-desktop bzr automake1.9

Get awn :

bzr co http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~awn-core/awn/trunk avant-window-navigator

Compile :

cd avant-window-navigator
./autogen.sh && make && sudo make install

And you are set.
If you need help with anything it's better to ask on the official awn forum.

[5h4rk]

I did what you said Skies, but still the same problem...

And I think I still ahve the old version, 0.1.2

chad@chad-laptop:~$ aptitude show avant-window-navigator Package: avant-window-navigator New: yes State: not installed Version: 0.1.2+svn20070731~3v1ubuntu0 Priority: optional Section: eyecandy/desktop Maintainer: Trevi <trevi55@gmail.com> Uncompressed Size: 967k Depends: libart-2.0-2 (>= 2.3.16), libatk1.0-0 (>= 1.13.1), libawn0, libbonobo2-0 (>= 2.15.0), libbonoboui2-0 (>= 2.15.1), libc6 (>= 2.5-0ubuntu1), libcairo2 (>= 1.4.0), libdbus-1-3 (>= 0.94), libdbus-glib-1-2 (>= 0.73), libfontconfig1 (>= 2.4.0), libgconf2-4 (>= 2.13.5), libglade2-0 (>= 1:2.5.1), libglib2.0-0 (>= 2.12.9), libgnome-desktop-2 (>= 2.11.1), libgnome-keyring0 (>= 0.7.1), libgnome2-0 (>= 2.14.1), libgnomecanvas2-0 (>= 2.11.1), libgnomeui-0 (>= 2.17.1), libgnomevfs2-0 (>= 1:2.17.90), libgtk2.0-0 (>= 2.10.3), libice6 (>= 1:1.0.0), liborbit2 (>= 1:2.14.1), libpango1.0-0 (>= 1.16.2), libpopt0 (>= 1.10), libsm6, libstartup-notification0 (>= 0.8-1), libwnck18 (>= 2.15.90), libx11-6, libxcomposite1 (>= 1:0.3-1), libxcursor1 (> 1.1.2), libxdamage1, libxext6, libxfixes3 (>= 1:4.0.1), libxi6, libxinerama1, libxml2 (>= 2.6.27), libxrandr2 (>= 2:1.2.0), libxrender1, python, python-glade2 Description: Dock-like window navigator 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. This package contains the dockbar with applets Homepage: http://code.google.com/p/avant-window-navigator/

And it says, "not installed", now I'm confused :(

[SkiesOfAzel]

It's probably not installed but the deb is still cashed so no worries. Do a sudo aptitude purge avant-window-navigator just to make certain and install the new version from bazaar.

[5h4rk]

I don't know why, I did a sudo aptitude purge avant-window-navigator, but I still have it on my Applications menu, and if I open it without CF, I get a black rectangle...

and when I:

chad@chad-laptop:~$ bzr co http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~awn-core/awn/trunk avant-window-navigator bzr: ERROR: Target directory "avant-window-navigator" already exists.

[SkiesOfAzel]

Open Synaptic , search for avant window , right click , select completely remove for the awn package(s) and hit apply.
As for the second error, the problem is that there is already a folder named avant-window-navigator in your home folder. Either delete it or better make a packages dir to keep every app you install archived and in order.

 cd ~
mkdir packages
cd packages
mkdir awn
cd awn
mkdir 52
cd 52

The reason for the folder named 52 is that you might update latter to a version that gives you problems , so it's better to have the older versions in separate folders and revert to them when you need to.

[SkiesOfAzel]

Also , did you have errors when you tried to compile from bazaar? If you didn't then you probably already have the latest version and you just need to configure it.