HOWTO: functional eye-candy with Avant-Window-Navigator

[reacocard]

how can i get windows to minimize to avant not to the bar on the bottom? I thought i had it working last night but now it is not. Im running 8.04, the manager has no option to do so?

You have to remove the other window list, avant is intended to replace that bar, not supplement it.

[reacocard]

i was just wondering where i might find some themes for awn? at this point it looks like all i've got is the default theme.

There's no central place to find them, so google's your best bet.

[Payteer]

My active tasks are not appearing in my AWN, what do I do. I am on Hardy.

[russianbandit]

My active tasks are not appearing in my AWN, what do I do. I am on Hardy.

I'm also on Hardy and seeing some strange behavior.
I couldn't get the launchers to show up at first, after I got the launchers to show up I can't get active tasks to show now.

[Nozem]

Regarding the unresponsive launchers, I seem to have solved the problem by rerverting back to the 'standard' version of AWN. That is: the non-SVN version that is currently avaiable from Hardy's own repositories.

Although it doesn't have the -core package (and thus no applets etc. - but please correct me if I'm wrong) all the launchers -DO- work.

[SoulSmasher]

thanks for the guide , but ive an styling issue

at your old guide, also the applications' positions were curved, now they don't at startup

i also have an issue, if a new application is opened, it stays a bit more top position from normal, i don't know if this is normal, but their position would be cool next to the applets

with this screenshot you can understand my issue better


(firefox and amarok's positions are a bit more upper than normal applets, sometimes other applets go up , too. and mouse hover , or opening a new applicaiton doesn't fix the issue)


when a bit more programs were opened , it ( with it, i mean the shape that applications' position generate) looks much more like a curve, but shouldn't it be a smooth curve at screenshot ? like i was using at your old guide

thanks for this great guide

[russianbandit]

To follow up on my post:
The launchers only launch one instance of the program. I cannot launch 2 firefox applications. Also the active tasks do show in an area separated from the launchers by a vertical bar, however, only the tasks that were started NOT from the launchers show up in active task list. The task that I start using the launchers do not show up anywhere.

I downloaded the AWN using the standard Hardy repository, not the BZR one.

[keypox]

You have to remove the other window list, avant is intended to replace that bar, not supplement it.

Ok i removed the bottom bar but that didnt do anything but remove it. Still windwos do not minimize to the avant thing.

[reacocard]

Ok i removed the bottom bar but that didnt do anything but remove it. Still windwos do not minimize to the avant thing.

it may require a reboot to take full effect.

[reacocard]

thanks for the guide , but ive an styling issue

at your old guide, also the applications' positions were curved, now they don't at startup

i also have an issue, if a new application is opened, it stays a bit more top position from normal, i don't know if this is normal, but their position would be cool next to the applets

with this screenshot you can understand my issue better


(firefox and amarok's positions are a bit more upper than normal applets, sometimes other applets go up , too. and mouse hover , or opening a new applicaiton doesn't fix the issue)


when a bit more programs were opened , it ( with it, i mean the shape that applications' position generate) looks much more like a curve, but shouldn't it be a smooth curve at screenshot ? like i was using at your old guide

thanks for this great guide

it's a known bug with curves, and one of the reason curve's isn't available via awn-manager yet. no fixes at this point.