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dondad
April 25th, 2008, 11:44 PM
Running AWN in Hardy with all updates. I can't seem to get it to keep the Firefox Icon on the tray. I have tried dragging one from the desktop, and also adding a launcher from the preferences menu. I add it (from either method), do a refresh and try it out. It works fine. I then close awn and restart it through the run menu and it is still there. If, however, I reboot the system, no more Firefox, even though I see it in the preferences menu. The other icons seem to stay OK.

Any idea what to check?

SaddaGocaraRupa
April 26th, 2008, 02:48 AM
I had the same problem in Gutsy. Just upgraded to Hardy and haven't been able to install it yet. Any pointers?

dondad
April 26th, 2008, 04:27 AM
I had the same problem in Gutsy. Just upgraded to Hardy and haven't been able to install it yet. Any pointers? Try here for install. Still having the problem.

https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/hardy/+source/avant-window-navigator

lemoutonvert
April 26th, 2008, 10:45 AM
I installed awn 0.3.1 from the repo:

deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/reacocard-awn/ubuntu hardy main

I can add launchers but I've got some other troubles...
You can try...

dondad
April 29th, 2008, 10:44 PM
bump

andrewsomething
April 30th, 2008, 07:10 AM
Original comment deleted by poster. Misunderstood the question..

bjornie
July 25th, 2008, 10:45 PM
I'm having the same problems over here. I can add applets but not launchers. If I drag launchers from the desktop to the awn bar they will not stick when I reboot my laptop, and creating launchers from awn manager doesn't work either - nothing gets added to the bar when I add them in the manager.

Anyone with a clue?

moonbeam
July 26th, 2008, 12:27 AM
I'm having the same problems over here. I can add applets but not launchers. If I drag launchers from the desktop to the awn bar they will not stick when I reboot my laptop, and creating launchers from awn manager doesn't work either - nothing gets added to the bar when I add them in the manager.

Anyone with a clue?

start awn-manager.
exit awn.
Remove the Launcher/Taskmanager applet if it is present
Add the Launcher/Taskmanager applet.
start awn.

bjornie
July 26th, 2008, 09:40 AM
That didn't help, unfortunately. Running Hardy if that makes any difference. Thank you for your reply, though!

moonbeam
July 26th, 2008, 03:44 PM
That didn't help, unfortunately. Running Hardy if that makes any difference. Thank you for your reply, though!

My suggestion:

1) If you're using the "official" Ubuntu packages you might want to try installing either the from the awn-testing ppa ( http://wiki.awn-project.org/DistributionGuides#Testing_Package_Archive ) or from reacocard's ppa (http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=762363&highlight=awn )

2) If you're already using one of those ppa's then I'd suggest: a) if using awn-testing open a bug https://bugs.launchpad.net/awn b) if using reacocard's post on the support thread http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=762363&highlight=awn

And double check that the Launcer/Taskmanager applet is among the installed applets list in awn-manager :-)

diego898
July 26th, 2008, 06:03 PM
How do I add a launcher? where is the windows equivalent of a .exe for firefox? Where is the windows equivalent of "prgoram" files?

MedellinManDem
July 28th, 2008, 04:02 AM
Dragging launchers to the dock only works while you're still booted in. As soon as you reboot (your pc or the dock itself) the go away. To keep a launcher stuck to the dock you must go into the AWN manager and add the launcher that way. It's pretty simple. The command for firefox should be


firefox %u

But it might be different on different distros, not sure.

diego898
July 28th, 2008, 04:13 AM
but what are the commands for the rest of programs? Like pidgin?