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

[reacocard]

Thanks for the guide . But i have a problem and cant run AWN . I had a previous installation of AWN for gutsy, but wanted to try this new one. So i followed your uninstall guide plus i removed from synaptic everything that related to "awn", "libawn" or "avant-window-mananger". Then i followed your guide for the Hardy Heron repository version and all went well, apparently, but i cant start AWN, nothing happens when i call it, either from the menu or terminal. With the latter i get this output:

fermin@fermin-laptop:~$ avant-window-navigator 
avant-window-navigator: symbol lookup error: avant-window-navigator: undefined symbol: awn_vfs_init

Any ideas what could be the problem? I unistalled and installed again and didnt solve the problem. I also followed another install guide from this page:



unistalling first and i get the same problem (same output)

Please help me , now i cant get AWN to work at all

what does

which avant-window-navigator

output?

[fermin]

Thanks for the reply, Reacocard. I typed the code you gave me and the output is as follows:

fermin@fermin-laptop:~$ which avant-window-navigator
/usr/bin/avant-window-navigator

I had previosly deleted this commands in the bin folder with your unistall procedure.

By the way, the page i followed alternatively to install AWN is

http://news.softpedia.com/news/Install-AWN-on-Hardy-Heron-82611.shtml

wich, basically has another AWN repository that claims to have also the latest AWN upgrades and be relatively stable at the same time.

Thanks in advance for the help

[shawalli]

I posgted this a few days ago and still have no solution:

i installed AWN 0.3.1 on Hardy. after installing compiz-fusion, AWN disappeared, so i uninstalled fusion and reinstalled "Advanced Desktop Effects Settings." AWN was still gone. I uninstalled it. I then reinstalled it using this thread to no avail. I then uninstalled it using the thread. I can see AWN is unclicked under add/remove, but when i click it to install, it says:

"This application conflicts with other installed software. To install 'avant-window-navigator' the conflicting software must be removed first.

Switch to the 'synaptic' package manager to resolve this conflict."

Any ideas? I can even figure out how to get the bottom panel back on my screen temporarily until i can fix AWN

[threetwozero]

I'm having this exact problem. Everything worked fine before "upgrading" to Heron. What gives?

So, after installing xgl (which is a no no with my ati card) awn does render and function as normal - albeit brutally slow. There are other threads about ati drivers and compiz not playing nice. As soon as I removed xgl awn stopped loading.

[Penguinu$$$]

!!!Help!!! whe I try to install AWN it says unable to find (or identify) package avant-window-navigator-0.2.6 !!! PLEASE HELP!!! S.O.S.!!!

[565Customz]

....here we goo again...

so awn decides that now it doesnt want to display running applets...so basically when i minimize a window i have no way of getting it back...any ideas

[lvanderree]

I had awn running below my maximized applications, and made it pop-up as soon as my mouse-cursor touched the bottom of my screen. However since a while awn will not come back on top any more.

Has anyone else experienced this same problem? and are there any known solutions to solve this issue?
I currently have this issue with both awn-bzr and awn 0.2.1

I really loved awn, but now it isn't very useful... There where only two features I'd really like to see someday (after this bug has been fixed) and that are:
1. Be able to set a delay to make awn pop-up once you hit the bottom of your screen with the mouse cursor (awn sometimes came up too soon).
2. Make it possible to re-arrange the icons within the taskmanager

[GumbyX]

Wow, looks like I'm not the only one having issues with AWN. Sadly, with all the changes that seem to have happened between 7.10 and 8.04, looks like awn might need a small overhall. Hopefully it comes soon.

Anyway, I am having a problem with the weather applet all of a sudden. I no longer get weather updates; It just keeps "fething weather data". Anyone else run into this problem?

[lvanderree]

yep have that issue as well, can't get any weather updates anymore in awn, while is does work in my gnome-systray where it is integrated in the clock.

[moonbeam]

Wow, looks like I'm not the only one having issues with AWN. Sadly, with all the changes that seem to have happened between 7.10 and 8.04, looks like awn might need a small overhall. Hopefully it comes soon.

Anyway, I am having a problem with the weather applet all of a sudden. I no longer get weather updates; It just keeps "fething weather data". Anyone else run into this problem?

I don't use Ubuntu myself but it sounds like WM behavior may have changed. Possible configurable.... I'll try and do a bit of research. compiz or metacity? I'll assume compiz unless told otherwise.

The weather applet was affected by some changed weather.com made.

Bug:

https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/awn-extras/+bug/227419

Fix Committed:

http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~awn-ext...k/revision/477

The awn-testing PPA has been updated with the patch. I'm not sure if Reacocard has had a chance to update yet.